Sentence examples for small though significant from inspiring English sources

But in a small though significant number of cases, he commuted prison sentences for murderers and other violent criminals over the pleas of victims' families, prosecutors and judges.

Two decades later, it's heartening to see that much of the American public agrees, and that our highest court has taken some small (though significant) steps toward equal rights.

The guide's addendum to the personal consumption platform is that even if everyone in the U.S. went "vegetarian" — that is, eliminated meat but continued to eat dairy at our current rate — it would make only a small (though significant) dent in overall emissions.

Consequently when compared with LDC services, FDC constitutes a relatively small, though significant, proportion of all childcare services.

After giving monoline insurers a boost with his $800 billion reinsurance offer, Warren Buffett has turned his eyes towards European pharmaceuticals, building up small, though significant, stakes in GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis.

The SOPA/PIPA battle that roused Internet users to the threats to this critical communications tool and awakened politicians to the power of Internet users is a small, though significant part of the growing Internet freedom war.

The principal result was a vast conductivity zone beneath the Altiplano high plateau at mid and lower crustal depths and a much smaller, though significant conductor associated with the Precordillera Fault System.

The applications of shredded mushroom to pyritic mine waste without wheat straw substrate in treatment 3 resulted in smaller, though significant (p < 0.05), reductions in the mean levels of the pyritic heavy metals in the mine waste at all four sites.

A generalized linear model fit on the inventory data of the two sites suggested that productivity (volume increment over the last 10 years) was primarily influenced by the management factor while the stand volume, stand age and density had a much smaller, though significant, influence (Table 2).

Synonymous SNP counts showed a much smaller, though significant, difference between ORs and controls.

As a QTL, it mapped to the same location with 82% of the trait variance explained, but showed smaller, though significant (p < 0.001) peaks on LG3 and LG5.