Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [conj] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She enjoyed dispensing their weekly portions from the store room on Monday mornings : a quarter-pound of tea for each that made one and a half pounds and quite enough too ; half a pound of butter ; one pound of sugar for each and a small tin of Epps cocoa between them all .
2 ‘ In the eyes of all but a small percentage of Irish people , the so-called armed struggle has degenerated into a campaign of sickening sectarian killing of fellow Irish men and women . ’
3 It is also common to say that there will be no liability in respect of a single claim of less than a small sum and then only when the aggregate of all such small claims exceeds a certain sum .
4 For all but the smallest prey , Nucella must penetrate the victim 's shell before paralysing it by injecting a narcotic .
5 One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for .
6 In 1967 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease decimated the herds of Cheshire in particular and a small group of local farmers restocked with imported Holsteins , because they were cheaper than British Friesians , and continued to import from North America in larger numbers .
7 Wheelbarrow Essential in any but the smallest garden for moving manure around , as well as garden compost and plant debris , including hedge clippings and grass cuttings .
8 In any but the smallest agency , though , there will be directors in charge of the main functions — creative , media and finance — as well as those who are account executives .
9 The present porch was added in 1777 and the small tower in 1827 .
10 It was the year before war broke out in 1939 and a small sum was paid for a quarter 's lessons , thirteen in all , I think , but I did miss one or two .
11 Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses .
12 The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ;
13 Previous work has focused on one or a small number of these activities , such as idea generation ; screening or development work proper .
14 But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement .
15 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 .
16 For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment .
17 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 .
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