Modifying Another Word

• economically: These are peripheral locations that are economically marginal, politically powerless, remote and often contaminated.

• politically: Predictably enough, the extreme anti-copyright position is a politically marginal one.

• relatively: In the past the voluntary sector has been seen as a relatively marginal issue for government.

• fairly: This had an effect, albeit a fairly marginal one in Scotland.

• somewhat: All English teachers are required to deal with media, perhaps in a somewhat marginal way but it's there.

• increasingly: But with the approach of sexual maturity, such skills become increasingly marginal.

Preposition: for

• agriculture: Natural climate variability in areas already classified as marginal for agriculture is one of many factors driving people into poverty.

Modifies a noun

• constituency: A swing of 12 % would be enough to win the marginal constituencies we need for a majority.

• seat: There are many more marginal seats where further gains are possible.

• vegetation: Cut back old marginal vegetation from around the pond.

• utility: It is shown that the social marginal utility of income may then become negative, even at income levels that are far from extreme.

• grassland: A further 95 ha of marginal grassland was lost in this manner.

• posterior: The spatial maps in the figures are unthresholded marginal posterior means of, i.e. for all three classes of deactivation, non-activation and activation.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: In spite of serious efforts, the clinical librarian in the US remains marginal.

• become: The dominant role played at the beginning of the century became quite marginal by the outbreak of World War II.

• consider: Green Party policies that were once considered marginal are becoming mainstream.

• feel: It often seems that they feel marginal because they know they are unimportant.

• look: With this wind and a potential rising swell, conditions for diving this site were starting to look marginal.

• appear: Tho they may appear marginal now, they are the seeds for the future.

Preposition: in

• debate: In other words, they remain marginal in policy debates ( Kelly & Symonds, 2003 ).