The game was the thing, the money he made a secondary matter, a way of keeping score.

This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter.

Once it is accomplished, crime detection will be a secondary matter.

Its effect on colonial trade was, in the eyes of the English government, a secondary matter.

Whether they turn out to be linked to the Rottweiler's evil streak is almost a secondary matter.

Although a public disagreement on secondary matters might be serious enough, it has often only led to religious discrimination.

The fact that his fare had seemingly come from nowhere was a secondary matter.

What should not be missed is that the positive aspects of the reports dealt largely with secondary matters like process and access.

It's a secondary matter by comparison with reproductive success.

Some might have fought about the interest rate or the color of the car, but these were secondary matters to my friend.