Example sentences of "than a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally you will want to use full side-slip for a few seconds rather than a small amount of slip for a much longer time . |
| 2 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 3 | They were to be very ‘ diplomatic ’ with recalcitrant poor peasants , and on no account were they to take to court more than a small minority in any one area , even if a majority were guilty . |
| 4 | A hidden and forgotten problem rather than a small one . |
| 5 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 6 | With runways congested , a jumbo-jumbo might make more sense than a small jet . |
| 7 | Occasionally people from more than one lineage on each side had made peace , and people spoke then of a peace between some higher order entity than a small lineage : Ujdaid and Talib , Awlad Amira and Mannaia . |
| 8 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 9 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 10 | This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car , but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne . |
| 11 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 12 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 13 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 14 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
| 15 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 16 | It would appear that the only Shetlanders who have reason to go into the estates at all , other than a small number of professional Shetlanders who have incomer friends who live there , are young Shetlander girls who are willing to babysit when most of the women in a social circle are attending the same function , or Shetlanders supplying some domestic service to individual households on the estates . |
| 17 | If expense must be curtailed , then it is probably better to have a plentiful supply ( at least 100 ) of two or three sorts rather than a small quantity of many ; it can be exasperating to have insufficient blocks of a kind to complete a construction . |
| 18 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 19 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 20 | The noise of the pump can be reduced by reducing the output using the regulator , giving a quieter result than a small pump running flat out . |
| 21 | When standing for any length of time , remember that a wide base is more stable than a small one . |
| 22 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 23 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 24 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 25 | At the age of eleven I became an errand boy for a working tailor , and every Saturday , and perhaps on an evening in the week , delivered the suits and costumes that he had made , though often the finished article was well behind the promised date , so the errand boy received critical comments rather than a small tip . |
| 26 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 27 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 28 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 29 | So there are advantages in running a big landfill or incinerator rather than a small one . |
| 30 | This had in part been justified by cost conditions — a larger domestic consumer was cheaper per kWh to supply than a small one — though in the conditions of shortage which prevailed it was arguably foolish to maintain such a strong incentive to increased usage . |