1.  The social survey was, in fact, only a minor player in the research game.

2.  The match was definitely more deserving of rotten apples than curtain calls, played between the ring-rusty old trouper and a minor player overcome by stage fright.

3.  Although Guiltless Gourmet had a four-year head start, the company watched as it went from the market leader to a minor player.

4.  As a result, most of the testimony in the first few weeks will come from relatively minor players involved in Democratic fund-raising efforts.

5.  A few minor players in international finance, including Cambodia and Mali, had also at least warned their banks to be on guard.

6.  A minor Parisian player named Quasimodo got on my nerves, kept asking me to write about his hunchbackhand.

7.  Advertising exploded across the Internet, making Benchin a minor player among thousands of sites offering advertising opportunities.

8.  But Burnham says it is a minor player in this market, with no more than a few thousand online trades a day.

9.  But if those teams get hammered, the Big East will remain as a relative minor player on the national scene.

10.  Digital is a minor player in the PC business, and analysts say Intel could easily sell chips withheld from Digital to other companies.