trivial amount

collocation in English

meaningsoftrivialandamount

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trivial
adjective
uk
/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/us
/ˈtrɪv.i.əl/
having little value ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition oftrivialandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That would be met if the authority remitted merely atrivialamount.
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Some might say that that is a small additional step but £60 million in a year is not atrivialamountto find.
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It is therefore possible to deploy only amendments which would involve an absolutelytrivialamountof expenditure.
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I do not think that thistrivialamountis of any use whatsoever.
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It is atrivialamountin comparison with the total spending on education.
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Apart from a small allowance for tools, which was atrivialamount, the costs of earning a living were always excluded from income tax assessments.
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I do not know for how much, but it seems to be for atrivialamount.
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On one calculation, the net public cost was £35 million in a year, which is atrivialamountin public spending terms.
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The cost of redeeming this promise is atrivialamount.
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The attendance requirement is coupled with the absence of payment, or the payment of atrivialamount.
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The precept by the county in a non-metropolitan area is an enormous sum set against the comparativelytrivialamountthat the district council spends.
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In view of thetrivialamountof the additional expense which would be involved, would he consider this matter again before it is too late?
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It observed that on-course bookmakers paid a "relativelytrivialamount".
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However, only a tiny andtrivialamountof the rubbish can be dealt with in that way.
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Nevertheless, it is atrivialamount, when set against their living costs.
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Why now are we being asked to vote this comparativelytrivialamount, an amount which is quite disproportionate to the damage done?
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It gives an immense return on a relativelytrivialamountof government support.
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The value of the unity which they would achieve would be infinitely greater than thetrivialamountof money that is saved by the means test.
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That is not atrivialamount.
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It would cost a little to run—atrivialamountin terms of administrative expenses—but the possible economic return to the nation would justify its cost probably several hundred times over.
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