Thus Newsweek: a "small footnote buried in 878 pages of tax legislation."

Neither had I. The bit about not feeling pain had been a small footnote to one article.

Allow me to offer a small footnote to Bill Keller's article.

The fate of the Kachadoorians in Baghdad is a small footnote to the war just past.

Perhaps he had made one small footnote in history.

Big Jim's small but honorable footnote in history is his 1949 Christmas address.

He had typed himself a small footnote in academic and social history.

They get all the small regional footnotes of gesture and inflection just right.

But in the end, "Uncommon Friends" amounts to no more than a brief, small footnote to history.

The Silk Road Project is one small footnote to that movement.