For me, on the other hand, well, a not insignificant part of my soul withers at the merest thought of someone else hearing the telltale clack of my headboard.

The economy was based on farming and services, fuelled in no insignificant part by remittances from the extensive diaspora.

Here, rather than show us how war makes young soldiers into insignificant parts of a larger machine, it just emphasises the lack of passion in the book's other characters.