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minor role

For her it made no difference if she was playing a central, middle or minor role.

Issues are playing only a minor role in this campaign.

The local telephone company has a minor role in all this.

However, because of the distance factor, California played a minor role in the war.

So far as I could make out he had a minor role in the whole thing.

He has only a minor role in the next episode.

People play a minor role in the exhibition as a whole.

I have tried many times to find the name of an actor in a minor role, but it's always a lost cause.

As for the Commission, it is not simply playing a minor role.

He played in 36 minor roles from year 1915 until his death.