Sentence examples for smaller but substantial from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Still unclear is what the Kerry campaign will do with Dr. Dean, who might be able to deliver his legions of loyalists and their small but substantial donations, but who has spent months trading harsh insults with Mr. Kerry.

After two decades of increasingly sophisticated digital sound recording technology, many purists still prefer analog over digital recordings, and a small but substantial market persists for vinyl records and turntables.

Based in Alaska since the late 1970s, Mr. Adams — not to be confused with John Coolidge Adams, the composer of "Nixon in China" — has made his reputation with a relatively small but substantial body of work.

The small but substantial proportion of industrial accident cases in our study demonstrates this.

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