Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Shortly after the outbreak of World War II rent control was imposed on all but a small number of high-grade houses . |
| 6 | The analyses carried out are often arcane in detail to all but a small group of ‘ high priests ’ ; |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
| 10 | 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 . |