Such steps are likely to have a small long-term effect.

This year, such a move is likely to have a much smaller effect on the financial markets.

It will also have no small effect on the nominee.

Teachers with less than 3 years experience showed a small negative effect in their value added.

Washington's efforts, and higher domestic prices, may in fact have had a small effect.

But suppose such a program had even a small effect.

The effects, large and small, are already being felt across the city.

At best, treatment can only have a very small effect on the damage that has already happened.

"We saw small effects, but they were not of any real value to the patients," he said.

However small such effects might be, it may not do to ignore them.