For the first time the question is of rather more than academic interest.

His principal field of academic interest is 19th and 20th century American cultural history.

In any case, for the moment all this is of merely academic interest.

Another subject in which Fine has combined his personal and academic interests is art.

To those involved in the debate, it is a question of more than academic interest.

And all that followed would have had only academic interest for him.

And information about that particular star was going to be of purely academic interest to anyone we would ever meet again.

"It's only a matter of academic interest for me now, as you might say, but I thought it would be interesting to know."

This was of more than academic interest for us as a company.

"This is a matter of more than academic interest at the moment."