minor injury/illness/operation etc• One lane of the motorway was closed and a driver was taken to hospital with minor injuries.• The driver of the tractor-trailerrig suffered minor injuries.• Forty-nine people were treated for minor injuries at two hospitals in Olympia.• The 17-year-old suffered only minor injuries despite the Vauxhall Cavalier car being extensively damaged.• Stanton, 69, suffered minor injuries to his face and head but did not require hospital treatment.• By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness, was an epidemic.
the minors• He came up from the minors, directing martial-arts movies.• He and pitcher Doug Johns met in the minors and became roommates.• Gerard King and Kareem Townes, the Lakers' final training-camp cuts, are thriving in the minors.• In the minors, he hung out with the greatest athlete of our time.• But his message was clear: Television amounted to little more than the minors, compared with the major leagues of movies.• Although they've ended up at the same spot in their careers, they progressed through the minors at different rates.