minor improvement

collocation in English

meaningsofminorandimprovement

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minor
adjective
uk
/ˈmaɪ.nər/us
/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/
having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the ...
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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/us
/ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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(Definition ofminorandimprovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This gives a veryminorimprovementto the range, but it may also indicate that there is considerable room for further improvement.
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But aminorimprovementof the proof proposed in the previous section makes it possible to obtain the following generalization of the previous result.
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We also note that in some cases divisive clustering yields someminorimprovementrelative to monotonic sentence alignment, and that performance is otherwise comparable.
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This is aminorimprovement, but we believe this formulation is nevertheless interesting, for two reasons.
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Minimally improved:minorimprovementin mood without improvement in other symptoms.
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Severalminorimprovementschemes are being undertaken including limited widening of the carriageway, provision of laybys and drainage.
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The first is a new one for maintenance andminorimprovementof trunk and classified roads.
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Authorities can also without reference to me undertakeminorimprovementprojects within a limit of £5,000 per project in addition to their main building programmes.
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That would be aminorimprovementon something which is pretty awful, but at least it would be aminorimprovement.
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The total amount so far allocated for 1953–54 to the county councils in question for maintenance andminorimprovementof classified roasd is £5,252,000.
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It is now "new construction and improvement", many of the "minor improvements"previously associated with maintenance under"maintenance andminorimprovement"being treated as"improvements" in the new definition.
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There will also be small reductions in the 1977–78 programme of maintenance andminorimprovementschemes.
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I hope that that is not so, because it would be a usefulminorimprovement.
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We contribute to their maintenance andminorimprovementexpenses on varying scales, but they are local authority roads.
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However, it is a pity that we are making only thisminorimprovementand not the major improvement which would be possible.
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No reduction in grant-earning expenditure on maintenance andminorimprovementis proposed.
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Therefore, because of the heavy traffic on this road, we have put forward aminorimprovementscheme.
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I expect shortly to be able to make a further limited allocation of funds for the maintenance andminorimprovementof trunk and classified roads.
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In the financial year 1952–53 about £77,000 will be spent on major improvement works already in progress as well as £35,000 for maintenance andminorimprovement.
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