Sentence examples of "мелочи" in Russian with translation "small change"

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В общем, вчера мальчишка толкнул меня рядом с беседкой, а затем подобрал какую-то мелочь после того, как я поговорила с мороженщиком. Well, yesterday a boy jostled me near the rotunda and then scavenged some small change after I'd interviewed the Happy Ice-Cream Man.
Решить проблему «слишком больших, чтобы обанкротиться», безусловно, важно, но прямые расходы налогоплательщиков на спасение банков были мелочью по сравнению с ущербом, причиненным финансовым кризисом. Fixing the “too big to fail” problem is certainly important, but the direct taxpayer costs of bank rescues were small change compared to the damage wreaked by the financial crisis.
Такое отличие может показаться мелочью, однако снаряд должен очень плотно ложиться в пусковую трубу, чтобы там возникало достаточное давление пороховых газов для его выброса. This may sound like a small change, but mortars must fit perfectly in their launchers so that sufficient gas pressure can build for ejection.
Впрочем, более важная причина заключается в том, что даже $4,3 млрд являются мелочью по сравнению с общим объемом штрафов и судебных издержек, с которыми столкнулись крупные банки в последние пять лет. The more important reason, though, is that even $4.3 billion is small change when compared to the total fines and litigation costs incurred by the major banks over the last five years.
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