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

B.—Speed of engine, 1,500 revolutions per minute; amount of compression, 61 pounds per square inch, or 11.5 per cent. less.

From Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants A Practice Treatise Setting Forth the Principles of Gas-Engines and Producer Design, the Selection and Installation of an Engine, Conditions of Perfect Operation, Producer-Gas Engines and Their Possibilities, the Care of Gas-Engines and Producer-Gas Plants, with a Chapter on Volatile Hydrocarbon and Oil Engines by Mathot, R. E.