Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obligation to make or take delivery can be avoided by an offsetting purchase or sale before the settlement date , and normally only a small proportion of all contracts are settled by delivery . |
| 2 | According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery . |
| 3 | Often the key to success is maintaining at least a pair of species , and sometimes even a small group with one male and a few females is desirable . |
| 4 | 6.2 We agree with Bolinger that there are such things as distinctively sense-qualifying adjectives ( although not many of them , and certainly only a small proportion of those that he suggests ) ; we shall take the view that these are restricted to prenominal attributive position , with predicative position reserved solely for referent-qualification . |
| 5 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 6 | The building industry has today an appreciably larger number of men at work than in the years immediately before 1939 , though probably rather a smaller percentage of the total are building new houses . |
| 7 | These strikes were successful in achieving their immediate aims and led to the formation of permanent unions of previously poorer workers , although as yet only a small proportion of them . |