Example sentences of "[adj] had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French had little room for manoeuvre , and in May 1358 a treaty known as the ‘ First Treaty of London ’ was drawn up , under which Edward was to have a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty , together with Calais , Ponthieu and Guînes . |
| 2 | There was a prison hospital with twelve beds , but this had little equipment and only basic drugs . |
| 3 | This had little chance of support from Democratic leaders , who seized the opportunity to publicize administration support for tax concessions for the rich . |
| 4 | The correction of the rates by logistic regression slightly increased the width of the confidence intervals , but this had little effect on our conclusions . |
| 5 | A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories . |
| 6 | Thus the military activity which began in Flanders in 1339 had little effect . |
| 7 | The former had little difficulty in removing Harold Evans from the editorship of The Times despite the elaborate system of guarantees that surrounded the editor 's post . |
| 8 | Even the General Strike of May 1926 had little impact as the five unions represented on the District 's divisional committee were not among the major participants at national level . |
| 9 | Land which in 1947 had little development value , and therefore no claim or only a small claim on the fund , may at some future date acquire considerable development value . |
| 10 | Reagan 's half-hearted bid for the Republican nomination in 1968 had little hope of success against an extremely well-prepared Richard Nixon . |
| 11 | The tribes of Todas and Veddahs stuck in Eliot 's mind for at least fifteen years because both had little sense of the meaning of their religious ceremonies . |