Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a [adv] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the numbers of such changes associated with moves are not large , and they can not account for more than a very small part of the differential in unemployment rates between the two groups , the sale of a large proportion of public housing to sitting tenants who are more likely to be employed than the general local authority sector population will have contributed to the increase in the unemployment rate differential referred to earlier . |
| 2 | I support the measure , but for those reasons I have no confidence that the Bill will make more than a very small difference . |
| 3 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 4 | Oil is always particularly alarming since a very small quantity will quickly cover a large area of water with an unmistakable iridescence . |
| 5 | ( d ) All the cost information for a project is retained in one or a very small number of files . |
| 6 | the average age of lone parents in accommodation for the homeless is in the mid-to-late twenties and a very small percentage are unmarried teenage girls . |
| 7 | If it is the latter , then we are seeing a constant rate of rape over the last decade but where women are more willing to make legal complaints and the police and courts not willing to convict other than a very small increase in the number . |
| 8 | On the first count , it is significant that a very small proportion of RB programmes is concerned with developing work with the unemployed ; moreover , much of this work is concerned not with the working-class unemployed ( who , of course , form the large bulk of unemployed people in Britain ) , but with the unemployed middle-class or professional people . |