The clearances that we had to work with were minimal in some cases".
But the list also included cataract surgery and hip and knee replacements, on the grounds that their benefits were minimal in "mild" cases.
Royalties were minimal in SoundExchange's early days — for the year that ended in March 2004, it collected only $15.6 million — and while they have grown, they remain a relatively small part in the overall picture of music royalties.
On the severe weather it said: Heavy snow invariably has a strongly adverse effect on sales, but the effects on the like for like numbers were minimal in the period under review, since the effects of the snow before Christmas were off-set by snow in January a year ago.
The interferences were minimal in the case of Ag(I).
Effects of both the anodized and the painted surface treatments on the fatigue lives were minimal in laboratory air.
Especially, changes in the mean heart rate during the two tests were minimal in the group F5.
Earlier studies indicated that the impact on forest cover during and after the war were minimal in the Imatong Mountains, and extensive in the nearby Dongotana Hills.
Under the conditions of this study and with theoretical lengths of cut ranging from 0.95 to 1.90 cm, length of chop effects were minimal in processed corn silage.
While innate responses to TLR4 activation or to retrovirus were minimal in B cells, plasmid DNA activated TLR9, resulting in CpG-dependent NF-κB activation/IL-6 expression and adaptor protein 3 dependent, CpG-independent induction of IFN-I.
In previous studies of FEM on RME [17, 18], they found the increased maximum von Mises stresses at this suture, whereas in our study, the stresses generated in this suture were minimal in comparison to the midpalatal and pterygo-maxillary sutures.
