And yes, there is yet another, even smaller heretical fringe.

Nobody outside of a small lunatic fringe has been saying anything remotely like this.

Indian political scientists and pollsters argue that only a very small fringe of opposition has produced the latest outburst.

The silvery green leaves are deeply cut, with a small fringe of hairs at the margins.

He also said his critics constituted a small fringe of people who want to end all use of animals in medical research.

Supporters, however, say the incidents are the work of "a few bad apples", a small fringe that have unfairly maligned the movement.

The paranoia once isolated to the very small lunatic fringe grew until it swallowed up a large part of the world's population.

Violent anti-Semites are no more than a small fringe of German society.

But only a small fringe will cling to this theory for long.

A shadow of a solid object, using light from a compact source, shows small fringes near its edges.