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Key West received the "navigable semi-circle," therefore was damaged inconsiderably.

From Time Magazine Archive

We crossed the river by a suspension bridge much inferior to that of Benka, and then rose gradually and inconsiderably, following the Teemboo. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

Great as all these advantages were, they were aided, and not inconsiderably, by other and adventitious ones.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

The wounded ships of the enemy, on the other hand, would have no base near by, and only those inconsiderably injured could probably be gotten home.

From The Navy as a Fighting Machine by Fiske, Bradley A. (Bradley Allen)

But on the whole, reckoning the amount of fodder required, the number of beasts which are maintained with advantage is very inconsiderably larger at present than in 1634.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav