Example sentences of "have so little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He has so little faith in his own policies ’
2 I 'd say his heart was in the right place if I did n't doubt that , since he has so little sympathy for the victims of his young tearaways .
3 And these days one has so little rehearsal time to get any kind of perfection .
4 In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable .
5 If it has so little status , why bother understanding it , one might ask !
6 I wake up hating myself and fabricating reasons why I 've had so little sleep — I was woken in the middle of the night by a phone call , my cat kept jumping on my bed all night .
7 She felt sleepy rather than tired , as a result , she told herself , of having had so little sleep of late .
8 In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC .
9 ‘ He 'd had so little education , but he loved books and believed learning was the key to living .
10 It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’
11 Did she have so little charity after all ?
12 ‘ Do you have so little self-confidence ? ’
13 Again she found herself astounded that Emilia should have so little feeling for him .
14 ‘ WHAT surprises me now is not that my generation had so little sex in the 1950s , but that , given the circumstances , we had any at all ’ — Sir Peter Hall .
15 The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee .
16 I thought them extraordinary Performances for a Girl of her Age , and one that had so little Advantage ( or rather none at all ) either from Books or Conversation : But my bad State of Health prevented me from making any further Enquiry concerning this young Genius , till about fourteen Months before her Death , when I was first inform 'd she had wrote a Tragedy .
17 But to realise he had so little faith in her — that really hurt .
18 So why has this critical theory had so little influence in the area of critical practice , why has there been no process of a filtering down of ideas from the ‘ high ground ’ of theory to the ‘ lower ground ’ of journalism , reviewing and the more quotidian criticism ?
19 Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications .
20 I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true .
21 The fact that I had so little self-control seemed to be irritating him ever so slightly .
22 And she was sorry you had so little belief .
23 For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it .
24 It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made .
25 She did n't want to quarrel with Maria , today of all days , when they had so little time left together .
26 One can not help but feel that one of the reasons why Edberg was beaten in his opening singles — without in any way detracting from Nestor 's fine achievement — was that he had so little time for either his body or his tennis to adjust after the journey to another time zone — and surface — from Australia .
27 Daddy had so many plans for Walker Hall but then he had so little time to do much .
28 In a muffled voice she added , ‘ They had so little time together that I hope they were happy . ’
29 I have so little money .
30 ‘ But we have so little medicine here that basic first aid is a struggle . ’
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