marginally

Definition:
1. Very slightly; not very much.
2. In a marginal manner.

Use 'marginally' in a sentence:

• 1. O(log n) behavior is measurably slower, but only marginally for very large task counts.
• 2. Sales last year were marginally higher than in 1991.
• 3. The dollar was at 32.26 baht midday Wednesday, up marginally from 32.24 baht late Friday in Asia.
• 4. Finally, it takes the information returned from the registry and does something marginally useful with it.
• 5. Indeed, the fourth generation is marginally worse off than the third.
• 6. This may mean marginally more calorie expenditure each day.
• 7. Bands that have had their songs in an Apple AD are still marginally acceptable.
• 8. They have over a billion people to support on an economy which is marginally bigger than Japan.
• 9. Some analysts remain skeptical and predict the market will only recover marginally by the middle of next year.
• 10. We can still sell it and even marginally improve it, but it's not new anymore.
• 11. If a test marginally passes, but some things dont fully work, you can say 70% pass, 30% fail by using the weight sliders.
• 12. If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks ； otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor force" and not actually unemployed.
• 13. even a marginally secret service.
• 14. This year's profits were marginally higher than last year's.
• 15. Proxy servers make it quite possible that the IP address visible to the server is only marginally useful, however.
• 16. Prediction on high cycle life of blades using probability method By analysis, bolt fatigue stress is marginally high.
• 17. Employment growth was negative in Chinese agriculture and marginally positive in Indian.
• 18. That may have been marginally bad for their health-but it does not explain the huge jump in the death rate.
• 19. But they can only marginally reduce, not eliminate the hazards.
• 20. Results are only marginally better this year.
• 21. Social conditions were only marginally better than those they had left.
• 22. Yet Saab has lost money for years and Volvo has been only marginally profitable.
• 23. That, obviously, increased, if only marginally.
• 24. Sales on Daimler's home turf slipped marginally and in the US, the firm's second largest market, sales grew only by 1.8%.
• 25. This may look bad, but the numbers appear marginally better than they have in recent years.
• 26. Layers were and are a lifesaver for any marginally complex design.
• 27. Other studies have shown that the network marginally prefers conservative guests.
• 28. Revenue last year rose marginally.
• 29. The addition of new scalar rules in a rule set usually only increases its execution time marginally.
• 30. The features are only marginally significant at95% level on a statistical basis.
• 31. The fund has outperformed the MSCI Emerging Markets index year-to-date, up marginally by 0.45%.
• 32. Instead promoting a full blown methodology change offer something small to help make either one of these marginally better.
• 33. For the moment they are expanding their loan portfolios only marginally.
• 34. Lower interest rates have relieved the burden somewhat and stimulus packages have reduced unemployment marginally.
• 35. More importantly in the Chinese context, money supply growth is also slowing, albeit marginally.
• 36. And it's marginally faster to add 0.5 twice than to add 1. Could that possibly be?
• 37. Security and the prospect of higher salaries may make an academic career look marginally more attractive.
• 38. Their faces were only marginally different.
• 39. They now cost marginally more than they did last year.
• 40. For much of 2008 these markets seemed only marginally affected by the slowdown in the developed West.
• 41. They're only marginally effective and shouldn't be used for longer than three days.
• 42. Firms may also choose to cannibalise their own products by producing marginally improved products.
• 43. Nothing like that has shown up in America: the BPP's daily inflation rate only marginally overshoots the official measure.
• 44. By 2007, the share had fallen only marginally, to 27.4 percent.
• 45. Are "marginally useful things" what we're really here to accomplish?
• 46. But don't let a marginally faster airport experience lull you into complacency.
• 47. Because everything takes place in memory, as illustrated in Figure 2, it is marginally more efficient.
• 48. The deal on Spain was marginally better on paper.
• 49. A gas horn is marginally lower at 121.4 decibels.
• 50. By analysis, bolt fatigue stress is marginally high.
• 51. The interaction effect between gender and age is significant on P and FC marginally.
• 52. Sadat's direct contact with us made that role only marginally necessary.
• 53. The Christian Democrats did marginally worse than expected.
• 54. These cameras have increased only marginally in value over the past decade.