The machine tools required for this programme are really abagatellecompared with our capacity to produce.
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I would like to point out that that sum is a merebagatelleof the whole revenue.
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If the problem is not going to be faced in that way, transference is a merebagatelle, scarcely worth a second thought.
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I refer to thebagatelleof £30,000 thrown to the fishing industry.
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I think that is a merebagatellewhen you consider that in this country we have a population of over 45,000,000 persons.
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They may get involved in expenditure in respect of drains or roofs which makes the initial expenditure a merebagatelle.
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To him the expenditure of taxpayers' money is nothing—a merebagatelle.
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He cannot say that the £150 million in this company is abagatelleor a trinket.
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One may play billiards,bagatelle, dominoes, draughts, backgammon, skittles, darts, and card games of skill only, for love or for a local prize.
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We have proposed a reduction of £100, which of course is a merebagatelleto him.
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There are, however, certain administrative expenses which have to be met, and £10,000 a year is a merebagatelle.
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I appreciate that there is a £5,000 grant, which may be important to small areas, but it is abagatelleto large areas.
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I suppose that £13 million is merely abagatellewhen one considers a net borrowing requirement of about £12,000 million.
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The personal aspect of the case is a mere detail, a merebagatelle.
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He himself described that sum of money as being abagatelle.
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