minute amount

Example Sentences

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Spade said, with a hand gesture that suggested a minute amount.

From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2023

Nadia Lynch's four-year-old daughter Evy is severely allergic to dairy, and exposure to a minute amount could be life threatening.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2023

Lumford recalls his disbelief that a minute amount of evidence – essentially one victim’s claims in a police report – was enough to justify depriving him and his family of freedom for months.

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2017

Even a minute amount can trigger a life-threatening reaction, as in Ms. Mendez’s case.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2017

It takes a very minute amount of electricity to open and close the sluices; but the man who has control of that small amount of electricity has the whole irrigation system at his mercy.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond