Example sentences of "it made little " in BNC.

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1 The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference .
2 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 .
3 It made little difference .
4 It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces .
5 Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference .
6 After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all .
7 We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference .
8 It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping .
9 Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder .
10 It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose .
11 Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty .
12 In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned .
13 But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference .
14 It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both .
15 It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn .
16 It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute .
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