doubtful advantage

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It was, as I have previously indicated, panic legislation yielded in haste to unreasonable clamour, unfair to the railways, and of doubtful advantage to traders. 

From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph

Do you know that it takes years of painful study to arrive at a single valuable result? that for a distant, doubtful advantage, all your bright, unfettered life must be sacrificed?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

If he gained even a doubtful advantage over an adversary, he rubbed his hands, clapped his knees, and chuckled and growled out his satisfaction, in a manner peculiarly his own.

From Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life by Moodie, Susanna

In Carlyle's case long life was a doubtful advantage, and in the matter of smoking he did not practice what he preached.

From Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life by Reade, Alfred Arthur

The Catholic faction had, during the whole war, the doubtful advantage that their quarrels and private dissensions were not brought to light by the press, but their Protestant opponents were broken into parties.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav