marginal
Example Sentences
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In more recent decades, especially in 2001 and 2011, the census has tracked the modernising economy: commuting patterns, marginal versus main work, education attendance and increasingly detailed disability and fertility data.
From BBC
Beijing is effectively trying to lower the marginal cost of child rearing while nudging households toward more confident spending across a cluster of family-oriented categories.
From Barron's
No doubt the 22-year-old will be working on the marginal gains he has identified to help keep his nose in front of his rival.
From BBC
Index funds add marginal exposure to stocks as they make relative gains, a seeming refutation of the age-old maxim to buy low, sell high.
As a result, the gains made by women and young people, who make up most of the workforce in this sector, remain marginal, according to the WTO.
From Barron's
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