minor role

collocation in English

meaningsofminorandrole

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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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role
noun[C]
uk
/rəʊl/
us
/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofminorandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofminor role

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Statutory regulation played a relativelyminorrolein the prudential control of banks.
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Participation by farmers has played only aminorrolein most villages.
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It is, thus, likely that cell-cell interactions have only aminorrolein ensuring regular, precise population of the peripheral nerves.
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Our results indicate aminorroleof rhyming skill in predicting literacy.
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The gold rushes and labour shortages of the 1850s played aminorrolein increasing both wages and flock sizes.
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The ad hoc constraints play aminorrolein determining accuracy.
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Genotyping errors have been speculated to have aminorrolein relatedness estimation.
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Nonetheless, this does not necessarily entail the conclusion that lawyers play aminorrolein divorce cases.
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One final unusual feature of the traffic from this region was theminorrolethat must have been played by rivers.
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Therefore, we concluded that the coupling resistance played aminorrolein the time-dependent changes of the length constant that were shown here.
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The process of vortex distruption plays a veryminorroleif any.
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Family planning appears to have played aminorrolein the fertility decline.
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The number of legal instruments, however, seems to play aminorrole.
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At first glance, it appears to play only aminorrolein these processes.
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Conversely, a small value of implies that profit plays only aminorrolein the choice of expectations strategy.
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Although women generally play aminorrolein the local political # arenas, this does not preclude the existence of indirect political influence.
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Other pension fund characteristics play aminorrole.
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