Example sentences of "[vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of official Washington entertained little hope of an early improvement in East-West relations . |
| 2 | They laid little emphasis on the message of the prophets . |
| 3 | ( 1980 ) , produced little evidence that there really is a substantial difference between homes of different social classes in the quality of interaction that children experience with their parents . |
| 4 | Although her initiative represented a reversal of her previous stance , it produced little progress [ see p. 37716 ] . |
| 5 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 6 | Using a clamped wooden batten as a guide , the saw performed well , and the polished sole plate produced little friction . |
| 7 | But the enthusiasm so often expressed in favour of change produced little movement within the industry . |
| 8 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 9 | When he first raised the idea with Mikhail Gorbachev and Edward Shevardnadze in 1987 , he got little response . |
| 10 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 11 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 12 | The studio got little cash to pay for new films . |
| 13 | In these days of concern for the environment I am unwilling to use peat ( though I did try it some years ago and found my plants made little headway anyway ) . |
| 14 | Understandably , given their numerical disadvantage , Grimsby made little headway in attack , although Alexander , at 6ft 4in , was of a nuisance value against a defence deprived by injury of Brian Kilcline 's aerial authority . |
| 15 | While many Alfonsists became increasingly attracted to fascism after 1931 , openly fascist organizations made little headway in Spain before 1936 . |
| 16 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 17 | Against a BBC policy of scheduling popular entertainment opposite LWT 's ‘ serious ’ programmes , the company made little headway . |
| 18 | In the inter-war period the radicals made little headway . |
| 19 | But despite apparent government support a number of ministers objected and the proposals made little headway . |
| 20 | However , following its 1989 electoral successes , the Republicans made little headway in the Jan. 28 , 1990 , Land elections in the Saarland [ see p. 37197 ] or in the March local elections in Schleswig-Holstein [ see p. 37330 ] . |
| 21 | Israel 's talks with Syria made little headway on the major dispute between the two countries , centred on Israel 's occupation of the Golan Heights . |
| 22 | She made little money from journalism , having criticized too many auras for her own good . |
| 23 | Death made little sense at the best of times . |
| 24 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 25 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 26 | Strategically that made little sense , for the Wilds were almost empty , yet it was as if the City 's architect had known that this vast , jagged hole — this primitive wilderness at the heart of its hive-like orderliness — would one day prove its weakest point . |
| 27 | Many people argued that , as the polytechnics had moved out of local government , two separate funding bodies made little sense and hindered the development of an integrated system of higher education . |
| 28 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 29 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 30 | Lowell , holding her , made little sense of what she was saying . |