minimal impact

collocation in English

meaningsofminimalandimpact

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minimal
adjective
uk
/ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl/
us
/ˈmɪn.ə.məl/
very small ...
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impact
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk
/ˈɪm.pækt/
us
/ˈɪm.pækt/
the force or action of one object ...
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(Definition ofminimalandimpactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Language spoken at home exerted only aminimalimpacton literacy measures in either language but a strong effect on oral language measures.
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However, once a local system stabilizes, individual differences haveminimalimpact.
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This is one possible explanation for theminimalimpactof birds observed in the coffee understorey.
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Adolescents who discontinued their substance use by young adulthood showedminimalimpact.
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The persistence of the problem, however, suggests that this measure hadminimalimpact, and the government did little else to address thespian impoverishment.
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A shigella vaccine effort in those countries would haveminimalimpacton the burden of disease and is unlikely to be implemented.
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Length of stay hasminimalimpacton the cost of hospital admission.
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These were chronic patients, and so there may have beenminimalimpactof the controlled trial on cumulative experience of psychosis.
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However, a run-time computation of ontology mappings would only have aminimalimpacton the routing process.
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As a corollary, if our expectation about the mechanism underlying party ambivalence is true, then value conflict should have aminimalimpacton the stability of ideological self-identification.
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Written off fifty years ago as having aminimalimpacton voting behaviour, the study of campaign effects enjoyed a renaissance in the 1990s.
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Nevertheless, given the effort made to reduce its frequency during classroom practice, the few items that may have appeared in the input probably hadminimalimpacton the study.
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Rachman explains the reasons why some strategies commonly employed in the treatment of obsessions that are not theory driven haveminimalimpacton reducing symptoms.
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This also suggests an incorporation of the parasitoid larva into the host's embryo, withminimalimpact to the latter and then co-existence with the developing host, under its immune response.
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We must go further, given that this indication on its own will have aminimalimpactunless accompanied by other measures.
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The amendments to which we have already agreed will reduce thatminimalimpactstill further.
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The sale will haveminimalimpacton occupants of the quarters that we retain.
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The proposals are expected to have aminimalimpacton business.
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