Sentence examples for small but substantial from inspiring English sources

ANMCs provide a small but substantial amount of primary care services in communities served.

Midsummer travelers to Boston and environs will find three enticingly small but substantial exhibitions.

Joe Nye, a Los Angeles interior designer, went further back in time, to the 1940s, in his quest for small but substantial seating.

Pulling a card from my own pack, he pointed out that $3,000 invested over two decades would add a small but substantial chunk to our retirement savings.

Unlike the general corrosion of ductile iron, small but substantial pitting corrosion was observed at the initiation even when coupons were exposed to soils of low chloride concentrations.

We find that individual policies were considered influential in a small but substantial proportion of significant changes made to operations, with disbursement, tax, and regulatory policies seen as the most influential.

A smaller but substantial proportion of the VRE cases (19%) also met criteria for community association, without other risk factors.

This mutation exhibited a smaller but substantial reduction in the fraction of complexes to 0.61 ± 0.02, relative to wild-type dyskerin.

Exposure to the precursors of 2,4-dichlorophenol and 2,5-dichlorophenol and to BPA, methyl paraben, and propyl paraben is widespread among Chinese adults > 40 years of age, with a smaller, but substantial and growing, proportion exposed to benzophenone-3, butyl paraben, and triclosan.

Dr. Dirk Taubert, a University of Cologne researcher and the study's lead author, said the blood pressure reductions with dark chocolate were small but still substantial enough to potentially reduce cardiovascular disease risks, although study volunteers were not followed long enough to measure that effect.

The smaller, but still substantial, group of genes which displayed significant transcriptional regulation without any corresponding changes in polyA mRNA, may either be a reflection of the enhanced sensitivity of transcriptional detection or, perhaps, result from a persistent lag between changes in transcriptional output and their reflection in steady-state mRNA levels.