A little background: Soviet-American trade has traditionally been of marginal significance to both countries.

Spy wars are a sideshow, of passionate interest to its actors but of only the most marginal significance for national policy.

This decline was of marginal statistical significance, they said.

Many analysts say that a revived Perot campaign this late in the election season would be a symbolic effort with only marginal electoral significance.

Whether the king's subjects were patriotic or not was, for the king, of marginal significance.

These were of marginal statistical significance.

Somali plantation agriculture was of only marginal significance to the world economy, however.

Literature, as we nowadays define it, was of marginal significance in Europe until the end of the 18th century.

The disparity in the data highlights the marginal significance now of gender as a predictor of voting behaviour.

The minority party offers opposition, but it is of marginal significance, typically because the minority is so small.