Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought to his notice the heap of auburn hair and , taking his time , he let his eyes stroll down a pinched but puckish face , breasts which looked firm though on the small side and the rest , as he would guess , in regular working order . |
| 2 | The contrast between the two periods was weak because of the small amount of data in the earlier period . |
| 3 | Further assessment of this problem was not possible because of the small number of cases but knowledge of histological type could further assist in determining the sensitivity of this method . |
| 4 | They had reached the landing when the first door in the corridor opened and out stepped a man who seemed to have no connection with the boy Andrew Jones , for here was a handsome , well-built and tall man , and he was naked except for a small towel tucked round his waist . |
| 5 | She too was naked except for a small towel around her shoulders . |
| 6 | However , if we had a matrix of order 100 , it would have 9900 off-diagonal elements , and we can only say that at each stage the sum of the squares of these elements would decrease by 1/4950 at least ; convergence to diagonal form is likely to take very much longer than for a small matrix . |
| 7 | In anything other than in a small space , the acoustic guitar needs electric amplification to be heard . |