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Example sentences for "small importance"

  • Here too appears the confidant, a dubious present to the French theatre, but one of no small importance.

  • So too the advance made to something like a uniform orthography was of no small importance.

  • The latter is of small importance to potters as it burns away in the kiln.

  • The porosity of raw clay is usually of small importance, but the porosity of fired clay or ware is often a serious factor in determining the suitability of certain articles for their intended purposes.

  • The officers, as far as I have seen them, are a very gentlemanly, excellent set of men, and considering we are to be together for four or five years, that is a matter of no small importance.

  • The famous Oxford Meeting of 1860 was of no small importance in Huxley's career.

  • To me, whose interest in the service is almost all to be made, this is a matter of no small importance.

  • On the contrary, the question whether we are to accept or to reject the deduction that all species must necessarily have owed their origin to natural selection, is a question of no small importance to the general theory of evolution.

  • I have dwelt thus at some length upon a mere matter of definition because, as we shall now find, although it is but a matter of definition, it is fraught with consequences of no small importance to the general theory of descent.

  • That he attributed no small importance to the operation of these principles is evident from the last edition of the Origin of Species.

  • Which declareth that men are growen to be farre more contentious than they haue bĂ©ene in time past, and readier to reuenge their quarels of small importance, whereof the lawiers complaine not.

  • Again, as the brightest rays of light are the steepest, the outside bevel upwards is as essential in the roof of the inlet as it was of small importance in that of the outlook window.

  • We shall briefly glance at these three systems of buttressing; but the two latter being of small importance to our present purpose, may as well be dismissed first.

  • All affairs, whether of great or small importance, public or private, were laid before the senate.

  • Actuated still by the same motives, the prevailing party took care to assign provinces of small importance to the new consuls, such as the care of the woods and roads.

  • Footnote 238: These are variations of language of small importance, which can only be understood in the original language.

  • His administration was distinguished by great strictness and equity, even in matters of small importance.

  • WATER GUM (Nyssa biflora) is a member of the gum group, and is of small importance.

  • Its splendid properties cannot fail to give it a place of no small importance in factories and in general building operations.

  • A subject of no small importance in its religious bearings has recently excited a good deal of sharp discussion in this country.

  • And although this consideration affects only one species, yet man's position on the scale of being makes his happiness an object of no small importance.

  • This is a position of no small importance, and will, therefore, require our careful examination.

  • But mathematical principles furnish several interesting illustrations of truth, of no small importance.

  • The reign of the lunatic Caligula is of small importance, thanks to its extreme brevity.

  • It is a work of small importance; its chief value is to show how low it was possible for Roman didactic poetry to sink.

  • That such work is of small importance is obvious.

  • The statements in the inscriptions about the teachers and their schools are of no small importance in themselves for the history of the Jainas.

  • These and many other statements in the inscriptions, about the teachers and their schools are of no small importance in themselves for the early history of the Jainas.

  • As they are here, along with the other two favourites, counted worthy of special mention, we may certainly conclude that they were of no small importance at the time.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small importance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    small arms; small army; small bird; small boys; small cakes; small class; small country; small degree; small dish; small flat; small garrison; small gold; small handful; small intestine; small lump; small majority; small minority; small place; small round; small scale; small shot; small spring; small stock; small village; small wares; smaller scale