Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing.
Many exceptions are made, for ethnic minorities or fishing families claiming they need many hands or families whose first child is handicapped.
Religious minorities claimed that government actions to stem the problem were inadequate.
A minority of unelected religious conservatives claim to speak for public opinion, yet they arrest the very pollsters who dare to demonstrate otherwise.
Any minority can claim discrimination; who is to say when any battle against racism has been won?
In fact minorities could claim their own independence, or to be rejoined with their own motherland.
But what tiny minority of idiots actually claim that?
Some players recommend whispering, one writer had luck using a phony British accent, and a tiny minority of users claim to have no difficulties at all.
A large minority claims some ability to use Irish, but it is the first language for a small percentage of the population.
The Council is aware that the Greek minority in Albania claims property rights in the same way as other citizens.