This would be an increase of nearly 4 percent; a significant but limited effect.

But action by individual states, even big ones like California, can have only limited effect.

Since most of those present were not soldiers, this was having a limited effect.

Often what happens in the context of a church service has only a limited effect as well.

The drugs he was taking to keep awake had a limited effect after a while.

A variety of regulations have been tried with limited effect.

Efforts to reduce the number of flights will only have a limited effect.

So far, however, this policy has had a very limited effect.

At the moment of first release, the news had only a limited effect.

So far the strike has had only a limited effect.