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minor improvement

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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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improvement
noun[C or U]
uk /ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/ us /ɪmˈpruːv.mənt/
an occasion when something gets better or when you make ...
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This gives a very minorimprovement to the range, but it may also indicate that there is considerable room for further improvement.
But a minorimprovement of the proof proposed in the previous section makes it possible to obtain the following generalization of the previous result.
We also note that in some cases divisive clustering yields some minorimprovement relative to monotonic sentence alignment, and that performance is otherwise comparable.
This is a minorimprovement, but we believe this formulation is nevertheless interesting, for two reasons.
Minimally improved: minorimprovement in mood without improvement in other symptoms.
Several minorimprovement schemes are being undertaken including limited widening of the carriageway, provision of laybys and drainage.
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The first is a new one for maintenance and minorimprovement of trunk and classified roads.
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Authorities can also without reference to me undertake minorimprovement projects within a limit of £5,000 per project in addition to their main building programmes.
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That would be a minorimprovement on something which is pretty awful, but at least it would be a minorimprovement.
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The total amount so far allocated for 1953–54 to the county councils in question for maintenance and minorimprovement of classified roasd is £5,252,000.
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It is now "new construction and improvement", many of the "minor improvements"previously associated with maintenance under"maintenance and minorimprovement"being treated as"improvements" in the new definition.
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There will also be small reductions in the 1977–78 programme of maintenance and minorimprovement schemes.
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I hope that that is not so, because it would be a useful minorimprovement.
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We contribute to their maintenance and minorimprovement expenses on varying scales, but they are local authority roads.
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However, it is a pity that we are making only this minorimprovement and not the major improvement which would be possible.
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No reduction in grant-earning expenditure on maintenance and minorimprovement is proposed.
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Therefore, because of the heavy traffic on this road, we have put forward a minorimprovement scheme.
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I expect shortly to be able to make a further limited allocation of funds for the maintenance and minorimprovement of trunk and classified roads.
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In the financial year 1952–53 about £77,000 will be spent on major improvement works already in progress as well as £35,000 for maintenance and minorimprovement.
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