Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
2 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
3 | ‘ There must have been just a small problem of logistics . |
4 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
5 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
6 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
7 | There have been only a small number of studies which have applied these techniques to bilingual data , for example : Auer 1981 , 1984a , 1984b ; Auer and Di Luzio 1983a , 1983b ; Tate 1984 ; Sebba and Wootton 1984 ; Milroy and Li Wei ( forthcoming ) . |