Example sentences of "[adv] small number " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , related to this , there is a much smaller number of policemen and women for whom they are relevant , which limits their use . |
| 2 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 3 | A much smaller number of companies — perhaps 15 in all — are specialized library suppliers taking 90% of their business from the public library market . |
| 4 | Since the individual risks are multiplied together ( so that someone with a double risk on each factor has an overall eight-fold increased risk ) the trial could be done on a much smaller number of volunteers . |
| 5 | Standard English used to be restricted in this way : if we look at Standard English as an historical dialect , then we find that 200 years ago it had a much smaller number of speakers in England , and had nothing like the geographical spread it has nowadays . |
| 6 | Within this much smaller number of local societies several — notably Glasgow , the Hibernian in Dublin and later the Bristol and Clifton Ladies — repudiated any auxiliary status to the BFASS . |
| 7 | In contrast there is a much smaller number of people in selling jobs ( cars , real estate ) and in some service professions who will respond over and over again , year-on-year , to performance-related payments of money . |
| 8 | Household maintenance activities such as cleaning windows or domestic chores such as shopping represent a problem for approximately 1,500,000 , while a much smaller number , about 170,000 have severe mobility problems in , e.g. , getting to the toilet . |
| 9 | However , it is possible to produce lexicons of comparable size that relate words to a much smaller number of roots . |
| 10 | Because of the closeness to the hardware , such microdiagnostics can drive signals through particular data paths and isolate faults to a much smaller number of units than would be possible with programs written in machine code . |
| 11 | In 1983 , when a much smaller number of students completed IT Advanced Courses , 14 per cent were unemployed at the end of their courses ( 1 ) , a figure which halved in the following six months ( 2 ) . |
| 12 | We should pay more attention to those millions of elderly pensioners than to the much smaller number of millionaires . |
| 13 | The rest of provision the rest of the , of the movement are things like provisions which increased during the year much smaller number . |
| 14 | Of the correspondence received by the French foreign ministry in 1893 , for example , over 70 per cent dealt with commercial and consular affairs : but this had to be coped with by a staff of only twenty-one against the twenty-nine who handled the much smaller number of political despatches and telegrams . |
| 15 | Using their shared characteristics , the animals can be arranged into a sensibly small number of groups , joined by the common ancestors with whom the shared features began . |
| 16 | … an extremely small number of Muslim children have been withdrawn from religious education and morning worship in the past . |
| 17 | The minutes also record two accidents on the site , an astonishingly small number for such a large project . |
| 18 | Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . |
| 19 | In any representative sample of students , there will be a statistically small number of highly intelligent students . |
| 20 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 21 | A satisfying explanation has to be in terms of a manageably small number of interactions . |
| 22 | Yet in spite of the increasing number of school libraries ( and the growing number of professional librarians running them , albeit still an unsatisfactorily small number ) the public library can and still does offer a useful user education service to schoolchildren . |
| 23 | Erm , I 've also got a rather smaller number of copies of ev Evolvematic notes if you wan na do Evolvematic , which I also demonstrated briefly . |
| 24 | In Wales the take-up of capital grants has increased considerably in recent years ; the bulk of the money has gone to a comparatively small number of larger farms . |
| 25 | The net result is a comparatively small number of supermassive black holes — perhaps only one . |
| 26 | The firm 's profits are the subject of some speculation in the business , because of its comparatively small number of employees and relatively modest premises in Welbeck Street . |
| 27 | In the autumn of 1986 , when Saxton and Bampfylde abandoned their previous employers , they had already prepared their future strategy : to work with only a selected and comparatively small number of clients in certain market sectors only , with an emphasis on finding the people needed to satisfy a client 's strategic needs rather than on the level of appointment . |
| 28 | The new big cities tended to accumulate in a comparatively small number of countries . |
| 29 | As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders . |
| 30 | The police know that ’ hotting ’ , ram-raiding , and related offences are committed by a comparatively small number of people , many of whom are persistent young criminals . |