"a small matter" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "ref": "1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Dialogue 2",
          "text": "[…] if that it were possible to remove the impediment of the Air, which resisting penetration, doth some small matter retard and impede the motion of the pendulum.",
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          "ref": "1788, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, section 79.4",
          "text": "The socket and spindle being a small matter taper.",
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        "Somewhat; slightly; a little."
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          "slightly",
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          "a little",
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        "(obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little."
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          "word": "a little matter"
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  "word": "a small matter"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "a little matter"
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    {
      "word": "some little matter"
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      "word": "some small matter"
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        "(obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little."
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