How To Use Negligible In A Sentence

First, from 2004 to the present, steric contributions to sea level rise appear to have been negligible. Anthropogenic Climate Change In Serious Doubt « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in price is negligible.
But the threat of a tsunami is almost negligible because the event was not tsunamigenic. Rogue Wave
Although its influence on the behavior modification procedures relatable to operant formulations has been negligible, Skinner has attempted to define the term.

Consequently, reducing enzyme activity by much as 50% has a negligible effect on flux through the pathway.
Mortality in vials containing sucrose solution without ethanol was negligible.
The difference between the two products is negligible.
On foreign jaunts their language skills are negligible. Times, Sunday Times
Evans has a pretty face and a body made for tight T-shirts, but he has negligible acting ability.
First, it applies to the fertilization of humans only, not other animals -- not a negligible consideration, but still a biased, that is, a homocentric one. ProLifeBlogs
In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in price is negligible.
Cooper's reward for the killing was described as "negligible" in court. WalesOnline - Home
Artists are a not-negligible factor in the globalization of culture that is, solipsistically, such a big theme in contemporary art.
The formula was designed to be multiplicative rather than additive because the panel theorized that, if any of these factors were negligible or not applicable at all, the risk would then be negligible.
The breading was a tad heavy, and the ham and cheese in the middle was negligible. Recent Reviews Near San Francisco, CA
When is small compared with unity, the curvature is small and general relativistic effects are negligible.
The landfill tax was introduced in 1996 but was a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
Copper corrodes at negligible rates in unpolluted air, water, and deaerated nonoxidizing acids.
The difference between your wages and mine is negligible.
Some studies have found that the impact is negligible. Times, Sunday Times
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
Therefore, since the curvature of the universe is essentially set by its expansion rate, the expansion rate of the universe determines how far away assuming special relativity works (which is typically as far as the expansion is negligible, so within a megaparsec or so, and also far away from any really dense objects, such as black holes or neutron stars). Does Space Expand?
The landfill tax was introduced in 1996 but was a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
This is common sense really, but I have no doubt that the chances of it being adopted are negligible due to cost.
Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
Since there are no rivers in Shetland, there is very little fresh water run-off in the voes (small fjords), and the chances of farmed salmon escaping up the rivers are negligible.
There was a negligible amount of rain in that region last year.
In contrast, choline is essentially derived from the circulation, and only negligible amounts are incorporated into other lipids, such as sphingomyelin.
In both cases, the phenomenon had the appearance of a direct, unbroken conduction, to ganglion cell or muscle fibre, of the same propagated wave of physico-chemical disturbance as had constituted the preganglionic or the motor nerve impulse, with only a slight, almost negligible retardation in its passage across the ganglionic synapse or the neuromuscular junction. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
Homes on high land with a negligible risk of flooding may be turned down simply because they are in a high-risk postcode.
The company says the cost of relocation will be negligible.
Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
And the benefits, say the proponents of surgical trials, are not negligible. PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
The effect of titanium and vanadium on the strength of wrought alloys appears to be negligible.
Investors who shy away from the risk of equities and the negligible interest on cash savings may prefer to buy bonds.
The difference in calories is negligible and they’re actually less healthy, peanut butter is healthy to begin with! Natural peanut butter vs Regular peanut butter in baking | Baking Bites
Any further increases of CO2 in the atmosphere will have minimal, if not negligible, effects on the temperature (see "Carbon dioxide is already absorbing almost all it can"). About: Blinded by Science
The amount of crime reported to us is negligible, although for anyone who suffers it's one crime too many.
Across the world, the researchers found that weak solar activity would have a negligible effect on temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
Towns whose population has since dwindled to negligible still have their cenotaph or war memorial, as do schools and churches.
The risk to people on the ground is negligible because the ash is so high. The Sun
Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
Second, the lords spiritual comprise 26 out of 738 lords in the House of Lords, so their influence is negligible.
By the way, if the US "goes cold" on Bahrain or any of a dozen other favoured satrapies, Saudi Arabia will not be able to do much, since it has an almost negligible army except, possibly, for the foreign hires. Bahrain: No conflict. Plenty of interest | Editorial
The difference between your wages and mine is negligible.
I recall a marine commanding officer looking around in bewilderment after storming a strongly held Argentine mountain summit at negligible cost. Times, Sunday Times
The proposed route would divert a negligible amount of traffic from the city.
Those taking other common antibiotics such as amoxicillin, norfloxacin and ocular antibiotics, had small or negligible increase in risk. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Ideally, any alternating voltmeter should possess infinite impedance and any a.c. meter negligible impedance.
the effect was negligible
They argued that only a negligible rise in atmosphere radioactivity resulted from the test.
There is a negligible difference in meaning between these two words.
Arrangements for women who bore children or reared infants in prison were negligible.
Justice in Rio is normally so slow that the effect on law enforcement is almost negligible.
The requirement to be of negligible value is usually satisfied by the company going into administration or liquidation with no prospect of a return to shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
They argued that only a negligible rise in atmosphere radioactivity resulted from the test.
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue.
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
On foreign jaunts their language skills are negligible. Times, Sunday Times
The record of Mesozoic metatherians remains negligible or non-existent for southern landmasses, though the Tertiary record has greatly improved.
Even more foolishly, I assumed that the cost of keeping track of guns would be negligible.
Some are excellent sources, while the quantity contained in an average serving of others would be negligible.
The dangers to the defendants from the defendants having to forfeit the plaintiff's leases, owing to failure to perform its obligations by the plaintiff or his assigns, may be negligible.
Mr William K. Reilly, the agency's administrator, said the immediate cancer risk to children from fungicide residues was negligible.
The region is characterized by dry-desert vegetation, a class of xerophytic plants that are widely dispersed and provide negligible ground cover. Tropical-Subtropical Desert Division (Bailey)
Bites from copperhead snakes, which are common in the eastern United States, seldom require antivenin therapy because they have the least potent venom and a negligible fatality rate.
All that I gave was likely to consider as negligible.
Modification of snow cover by climatic change or ‘snow farming’ at ski resorts should have negligible effects on nivation and landforms.
Money has been spent on the area, including investment in schools and housing, but the visible effect is negligible. Times, Sunday Times
Telephone networks are digital, and the marginal cost of providing a call is negligible.
The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) spoke out on Monday against what it termed the unacceptably high incidence of police killings and the negligible number of arrests in such cases. ANC Daily News Briefing
Since there are no rivers in Shetland, there is very little fresh water run-off in the voes (small fjords), and the chances of farmed salmon escaping up the rivers are negligible.
The difference between the two products is negligible.
These are essential for keeping fat and water dispersed evenly in an emulsion, and then binding the free water after freezing and hardening so ice crystal formation is negligible.
My reply is that the increase in risk of error in accepting the conjunction is negligible and the gain in perspicuity in accepting the conjunction is considerable.
This does not mean that the pace of innovation and of capital formation in the eighteenth-century economy were negligible.
Using object replication, it automatically generates duplicate versions of objects on multiple disks with negligible overheads.
The risk is absolutely negligible, though convincing people of that is difficult because H5N1 has now acquired a rather mythological status. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, maybe a tiny, tiny smidgeon, but the difference is so negligible that it is borderline asinine to risk a fake 1961 Ducru when one can almost certainly find pristine bottles of the 1966 and buy and drink them with confidence. Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
As an ephemera collector from way back, I am particular vexed by the suggestion that history holds negligible value in a culture dominated by technological excess.
The start-up costs of digital are much greater than film, but the incremental costs are negligible.
Officials tell us that the amount of anthrax found in the mail was what they call negligible, that it actualy required two tests to even find it, so they don't think it's a large amount. CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2001
That was pretty much what I figured out from my long career at a technologically advanced firm where we broke into a small, sleepy, cartelized, technically backward, and highly profitable market, revolutionized how business was done, create huge amounts of value for customers, and reduced the whole industry, including us, to negligible profits for a decade. Matthew Yglesias » An Influential Idea I Didn’t Get in a Book
The approach is old-fashioned, research slapdash, scholarship negligible, the judgments inane, the characterisation childish, the tone sick-makingly patriotic.
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
They therefore decreed that both marks should be restored to their former positions, and amerced both parties by a negligible fine. Monk's Hood
The sheep are of negligible economic value, yet hill farmers are subsidised to manage the land in a manner that's damaging and expensive when things go wrong. Times, Sunday Times
The birds never alarmed while the decoy was placed or removed, but did so during nest visits, so we believe that disturbance due to the observer was negligible.
On the first day of the offering there was negligible subscription from the market.
A time bomb containing a small but by no means negligible amount of cold takeaway coffee. Times, Sunday Times
Following acquisition of the parasite, a hemoflagellate protozoan of the order Kinetoplastida, clinical symptoms range from negligible to acute Chagas disease that is characterized by fever, high parasitemia, and 5% mortality.
This method relies on the assumption that the stray capacitance and membrane conductance are negligible.
The operation of a vertical-shaft kiln, which is the heart of the process, is such that negligible emission takes place as the shaft kiln itself acts as an effective filter. 9.1 Dust-generation sources and characteristics
The charge would have hit thousands of families with larger cars, although it was expected to have a negligible impact on the amount of carbon dioxide released. Times, Sunday Times
According to real estate appraisers and real estate sales professionals, the interprovincial difference between the value of a single-family residence may be negligible for those priced under $75,000.
This is a growth stock and as such has a negligible 1 per cent dividend yield. Times, Sunday Times
In buying a suit, a difference of ten cents in price is negligible.
Copper corrodes at negligible rates in unpolluted air, water, and deaerated nonoxidizing acids.
The landfill tax was introduced in 1996 but was a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
In this case the abbreviatory value is negligible, but in the case of some long expressions, such as that for the ancestral of a relation, or in very many areas of mathematics, it may be considerable. StanisÅaw LeÅniewski
In a healthy adult the amount lost in this way is negligible. 2.
All that I gave was likely to consider as negligible.
My knowledge of German is negligible.
The Licence Committee's view is that this could not be considered negligible.
His books have made him a multi-millionaire even though the income from film rights and merchandising has so far been negligible.
Yet, against that self-image stands a record of slight, even negligible achievement.
Industrial hemp, like marijuana, is a member of the cannabis sativa family, but has negligible traces of the hallucinatory chemical THC.
The damage to my car is negligible.
Energy transferred to our bodies as heat-by sitting by a fire or by drinking a hot beverage for example-is negligible in comparison.
A slight chance, a negligible chance, but one he dared not fail to assay. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
There is negligible recent evidence to suggest that football has a doping problem. Times, Sunday Times
One may travel for league after league along this slimy water and make head for days and weeks against its current -- which glides everlastingly past the dahabiya, in little hurrying waves -- without seeing this warm, fecundating river, compared with which our rivers of France are mere negligible streams, either diminish or increase or hasten. Egypt (La Mort de Philae)
There is a negligible difference in meaning between these two words.
A slight chance, a negligible chance, but one he dared not fail to assay. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
Publishing on the web costs a lot less than publishing on paper, although its costs are not negligible.
No one wants to work with him, no one can stand him, but without him, the show is even more negligible, which is why they keep him around. Matt's TV Week in Review
But for men, marital loss has a negligible effect on the risk of heart disease. Times, Sunday Times
After a negligible amount of sleep, it was up at eight on the Saturday, for a long day of activities.
The immediate effects of all the G8 razzmatazz are negligible.
For less invasive procedures such as normal dentistry the risk is described as "negligible. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Paper factories, glass factories, tanneries, forges, and other such establishments, which sold principally to local and national markets, had a far from negligible output.
I am not particularly strong, I lack speed, my senses are dull in comparison, my eyesight sucks, my sense of smell and that of hearing are almost negligible.
The negligible impact of this ever-increasing cash infusion on reading scores is illustrated in this chart.
No great footballer's contribution to a major final can ever have been more damningly negligible. Times, Sunday Times
Mutations are usually negligible changes that get tossed into the stewpot of the gene pool, where they simmer mostly unnoticed and invisible to selection. It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb
The big international explorers took up a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
The Turks were, of course, forced to respect the Chinese who held allhigher official positions, but still the Chinese – the master race - were a negligible minority in their own country.
Thus, it is reasonable to assume that the protonation of the titratable residues on the HA1 surface is mainly influenced by other residues of HA1 and that effects from HA2 domain may be negligible.
The risk of identifying focal lesions on a large scale in any screening programme therefore seems negligible.
In comparison with the disastrous damage made by the earthquake, my personal loss is negligible.
And how can a healthy Baker not be better than the negligible nonentities Boston used for an inside attack last season?
Advantages of the ancient method of water transportation include a stable water-flow with little vaporisation and energy consumption that is almost negligible.
The cost is huge, the effect negligible. Times, Sunday Times
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
Mountain Rose Herbs has organic cocoa butter for $12/lb, which is a pretty negligible difference, but their shipping price via "UPS/Fed Ex Gound" is $8.77 for that order. Cocoa butter PSA (What if No One's Watching?)
The difference between the two products is negligible.
Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue.
The set of services that fits into this category, however, may well be negligible.
Any error introduced while measuring the width of strips a d is considered negligible.
In comparison with the disastrous damage made by the earthquake, my personal loss is negligible.
By the way, this is not to say that Chinese bloggers are totally insignificant and negligible.
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
The contribution of high networth individuals in the fund is expected to be negligible, which is traditional in corporate private equity funds such as this. Tata Capital Growth Raises $200 million
Eventually the government award was appealed and reduced to a negligible amount.
A spokesman for the county council said only one sign was to be moved at a negligible cost.
This produced a significant efficiency gain with negligible, if any, loss of accuracy.
In comparison with the disastrous damage made by the earthquake, my personal loss is negligible.
Ideally, any alternating voltmeter should possess infinite impedance and any a.c. meter negligible impedance.
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
In my experience, bodies leak a negligible amount of fluid, but you may want to put a plastic sheet down, just in case. A Serious Undertaking
Using object replication, it automatically generates duplicate versions of objects on multiple disks with negligible overheads.
The totality of the minute, simple world of the humans, microscopic and negligible as it was in the siderial universe, was as far beyond his guessing as is the siderial universe beyond the starriest guesses and most abysmal imaginings of man. CHAPTER XXIV
For the purposes of English history his chronicles are entirely negligible, which is the reason why they have been allowed to remain unpublished and in oblivion. The Sea-Hawk
Paper factories, glass factories, tanneries, forges, and other such establishments, which sold principally to local and national markets, had a far from negligible output.
Delays in the courts are far from negligible.
Then when the Mexicans fired off a few rockets at us in ineffectual retaliation, with negligible damage to us, we would then have responded with a massive bombing campaign against Mexican civilian infrastructure, killing a hundred or more Mexicans to every one American killed. On Gaza: Huffington Post Takes Cues From Fox News « Antiwar.com Blog
The stuffing beneath the worn velvet seat cover sighed to wafer thinness under her negligible weight.
Traditional orthodoxy has long been passé at HDS and the intellectual influence on religion by the faculty has been negligible.
Instead, it allocates a negligible amount for the maintenance and upkeep of the zoos.
Any help or assistance is sufficient provided it is not so insignificant as to be negligible.
The change in pace is subtle and almost negligible, and yet its mellow lure propels the song beyond the gloom.
But for reasons entirely his own, he had waited there in the negligible dark of the prison, waited with only his coruscating thoughts and the company of his most inward of personalities for amusement.
A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment," he wrote. Justice Stevens to retire from Supreme Court
Although its influence on the behavior modification procedures relatable to operant formulations has been negligible, Skinner has attempted to define the term.
Note: This is the cost to the information/infrastructure provider for supporting the discovery mechanism; the differences in the cost of consuming the information can be assumed to be negligible.
The difference between original and amended specs seems negligible.
It seems the additional expense of producing the decals would be negligible.
Nelson's tactics slicing the enemy line ensured the vanguard played a negligible role in the battle which followed.
Traditional orthodoxy has long been passé at HDS and the intellectual influence on religion by the faculty has been negligible.
All measurements were recorded three times and differences between the observations were negligible.
We drank that dodgy cheap wine which is akin to beetroot juice and has negligible alcohol content.
In fact, it seems that their effect is negligible. Times, Sunday Times
I personally am entirely unhurt, apart from negligible grazes, bruises, and burns... Listening In: U.S. Monitors Overseas News
Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
The fact that two of the most liberal institutes in Vienna formally tried to play not only a scientific but also a political role in the country at a time of a deep antirepublican crisis is not negligible. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Being reluctant to think , unwilling to study intensively and under-stand deeply and being complacentand satisfied at negligible knowledgeall are the cause of poor intelligence, which can be germed as "foolish".
A modest or negligible rise in labor costs will not have a major effect on inflation, he said.
The hull is covered with more long and delicate plumose anemones, some large white tunicates and forests of featherworms projecting into the negligible current on their long stalks.
There would, in fact, be some odd consequences if one were to accept Mr Gibson's submission in relation to situations where the prospects lay between the overwhelming and the negligible.
Although the company claims it was not losing money, profit levels were thought to have been negligible.
Every atom of carbon in gasoline must end up either as COX (CO or CO2) or as unburnt hydrocarbons (a negligible portion ends up as soot on your tailpipe or otherwise trapped in the vehicle). The Volokh Conspiracy » The Parked Mustang Test of Environmental Progress
The answer is that the impact is negligible. Times, Sunday Times
It has a low fibre content and a low portion weight, so its fibre contribution to the average diet is negligible.
Because of the intractability of her condition, the offender's prospects of rehabilitation are negligible.
I recall a marine commanding officer looking around in bewilderment after storming a strongly held Argentine mountain summit at negligible cost. Times, Sunday Times
The stuffing beneath the worn velvet seat cover sighed to wafer thinness under her negligible weight.
Too negligible to have practical effect in classical physics, it adds up over trillions of years.
In its chrysalis stage fascism is but a publicistic and activistic (or 'agit-prop') phenomenon on the fringe of mainstream political culture and developments, condemned to lead a marginal existence in articles, pamphlets and books, often with negligible readerships and in the radicalism of ineffectual political factions," he writes. Michelle Goldberg: The F-Word
Until 1972, the interprovincial difference was negligible.
The authors conclude that the risk of respiratory conditions resulting from passive smoking, although small, is not negligible. 2.
Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
The requirement to be of negligible value is usually satisfied by the company going into administration or liquidation with no prospect of a return to shareholders. Times, Sunday Times
A small upstart company making a small operating system would not present much of a target to hackers, and would thus pay negligible premiums.
The recoil, for example, was negligible, and the gun was certainly not on a hair-trigger.
A slight chance, a negligible chance, but one he dared not fail to assay. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
We are in negligible credit card debt compared to others with four or five times the income. Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2008 » October
They argued that only a negligible rise in atmosphere radioactivity resulted from the test.

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