Sentence examples for was so marginal from inspiring English sources

In 1997, Barclays' investment banking unit was so marginal that its centuries-old parent, Barclays, dumped most of its businesses, including equities and mergers and acquisitions.

Admittedly, during 2010 China, constantly criticised especially by America for its undervalued currency, did move to allow the yuan to rise against the dollar, but the increase was so marginal as to be meaningless.

At his elementary school, where his behavior was exemplary and his assignments completed and his progress charted at the medial apex of all relevant curves, the boy was, among his classmates, the sort of marginal social figure who was so marginal he was not even teased.

Tang clearly had never heard of a hung parliament (was it like a dropped waistline?) but explained that Britain was so marginal in the global economy – "They're not even in the eurozone" – it scarcely mattered a toss who was in charge.

For many years, the creationist movement in Poland was so marginal that the term "creationism" and its foundations were largely unknown within society.

"We could have appealed and pushed to have it at 12A without the cuts, but we took the view that making changes to seven seconds was so marginal.

So why is GCHQ bugging them if the potential gains are so marginal?

Opposition rallies were so marginal that not even Western journalists showed up anymore.

Poetry is so marginal (at least economically) that there's probably more money in needlepoint, thanks to Etsy.

"The cost of sugar-sweetened beverages is currently so low that any price increase would be so marginal that it would be unlikely to affect intake.

And if someone's business model is so marginal that an Oxfam shop opening nearby decimates it, then we are not the problem".