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
Instead of doing laborious, costly bacterial cultures, new techniques allow for just a minute amount of bacteria to create what are essentially genetic bar codes of various organisms and their components.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2016
In order to do this the colony is touched with a piece of platinum wire; the minute amount of growth that adheres to the wire is sufficient to seed the tube of fresh culture-medium.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
