Example sentences of "become too small " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the British railway network grew , so did Stephenson 's , and as the century neared its end , so the company George died in 1848 ; Robert in 1859 came to the conclusion that the Newcastle Works were becoming too small . |
| 2 | And Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown said industry could become too small even to ‘ benefit substantially ’ from an upturn . |
| 3 | I do n't feel alarmed as I know of many secret passages , but they have all become too small to use . |
| 4 | His successor pursued a more cautious path but there was a danger that party membership would become too small to maintain satisfactory links with the bulk of the population . |
| 5 | The so-called leisure and recreation programmes would be the responsibility of the local authority and might become too small to be financially , organisationally or educationally viable . |
| 6 | The buildings of the Benedictine abbey of Königsmünster in Mescede had become too small , with the result that the abbey , was ‘ only just ’ able to function . |
| 7 | In addition the head office buildings in Liverpool had not been purpose built to suit the needs of the company and they had become too small . |
| 8 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 9 | So tight that children were securely fastened to their parents , some with leather baby reins that had become too small , others were in prams , trolleys or just held by the firm grip of an adult hand . |
| 10 | Beyond this threshold the absolute frequency of each lemma was 2 or under ; at which point the sample size becomes too small and the statistical behaviour unstable . |
| 11 | Typically the gain becomes too small to be useful at frequencies above ∼100 kHz . |
| 12 | It is ironic that early in this century the ubiquitous ranchbred Hereford of the western USA became too small in the bone and Beef Shorthorns were imported from Scotland to boost the Hereford 's size , whereas in the second half of the century the American Herefords have become much taller than those in Britain and are being re-imported to boost the height of the native herds . |
| 13 | When the ‘ phoney war ’ ended and British aircraft were shot down in larger numbers , the camp became too small to hold all aircrew prisoners . |
| 14 | The farmhouse at Clogau became too small and too isolated . |
| 15 | Schools would not , therefore , be allowed to become too small in terms of their pupil numbers : ‘ LEAs see it as necessary to balance allowance for parental choice against the consequences of choice for schools generally . ’ |