Example sentences of "[adv] small number " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | … an extremely small number of Muslim children have been withdrawn from religious education and morning worship in the past . |
| 3 | The minutes also record two accidents on the site , an astonishingly small number for such a large project . |
| 4 | Many of them are part-time workers and many have had their already small number of hours reduced further . |
| 5 | In any representative sample of students , there will be a statistically small number of highly intelligent students . |
| 6 | A satisfying explanation has to be in terms of a manageably small number of interactions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The net result is a comparatively small number of supermassive black holes — perhaps only one . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The new big cities tended to accumulate in a comparatively small number of countries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Those changes created a comparatively small number of hours in the year when planning and the exchange of ideas could be conducted other than in the helter-skelter of a school day . |
| 16 | However , with a fairly small number of airframe changes and a reworked canopy area the Texan would clean up quickly to become the Zeke for the film . |
| 17 | At the time that the present series of transplant patients were referred for surgery our transplant centre was one of a fairly small number seeking suitable donor organs , not just in Britain but in continental Europe . |
| 18 | Very soon after I had taken my seat a fairly small number of musicians on the stage , of chamber orchestra size , began their rehearsal . |
| 19 | Black holes are one of only a fairly small number of cases in the history of science in which a theory was developed in great detail as a mathematical model before there was any evidence from observations that it was correct . |
| 20 | So in the case of all who die intestate , and for most of the rather small number who make a will , the outcome of inheritance will be that relatives are beneficiaries , and the legal procedures which ensure this codify a set of obligations to give support which discriminates between close and more distant kin . |
| 21 | This is a remarkably small number of cases and needs further examination . |
| 22 | In fact , a surprisingly small number of studies examine this dimension of syntactic variation ; for example , many of the papers in Sankoff 's 1980 collection concentrate on grammatical constraints , and the focus of Weiner and Labov ( 1983 ) is similar . |
| 23 | In recent years the popularity of the computer has soared , few people never come into close contact with computers , but a surprisingly small number use them to their full potential . |
| 24 | The manuscript , however , can be attributed to the West Midlands , to the diocese of Worcester , and a small number of spellings in the text appropriate to the dialect of this region can be found , as indeed can an equally small number of spellings appropriate to the south-east of England . |
| 25 | The relatively small number of East Germans who have so far actually left their country permanently suggests that the leadership 's decision on free travel was a shrewd move . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , IPC as proposed is applicable to only a relatively small number of pollutants . |
| 27 | As in the UK , only a relatively small number of farmers were interested in training — probably 12–15% . |
| 28 | As a result the productive sector is employing a relatively small number of the labour force , while the sector that serves the region absorbs greater numbers . |
| 29 | For the moment I cling to the idea that there are a relatively small number of cell-to-cell signals . |
| 30 | Synfuel production will remain concentrated in a relatively small number of countries . |