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Meanings of minor role in English

A small role.

Usage of minor role in English
1
This is a minor role that only required four days of filming.
The South African
2
Justice Gilbert noted that Hansen played a minor role in the kidnapping.
Radio NZ
3
Nan Murray played a minor role and was also part of the chorus.
BBC
4
In the Spanish conquest of the Incas, guns played only a minor role.
Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
5
The sequence-dependent electrostatic component of base stacking seems to play a minor role.
Pubmed
6
It was called upon for a minor role here and froze with stage fright.
The Guardian
7
British comic Steve Coogan's veritable talents are wasted in a poorly written minor role.
Reuters
8
Dawkins is her guardian, but he plays a minor role in comparison to Aiden.
The Irish Times
9
The United Nations has played a minor role since the crisis began on Aug. 7.
Reuters
10
However, trial arm had only a minor role in treatment choice compared to other variables.
Pubmed
11
These results suggest that VEGF may play a minor role in immediate bronchoconstriction after TDI-BPT.
Pubmed
12
These results indicate that membrane shunting by GABA-gated Cl- channels plays a relatively minor role.
Pubmed
13
The contact had played his role-hisminor role-andwas expendable-asJacqueline Lavier had been expendable.
The bourne identity
14
The presence of comorbidity always played a minor role.
Pubmed
15
Dr. Osler says: "In our figures it appears to play a minor role."
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
16
I'm certainly not looking back at that but it might have played a minor role perhaps.
Radio NZ
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