Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] difference " in BNC.
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1 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
2 | It made little difference . |
3 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
4 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
5 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
6 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
7 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
8 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
9 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
10 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
11 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
12 | It made little difference as York 's full back Richard Stevenson bamboozled Novos with a hat-trick of exciting tries from set piece moves , the fourth being touched down by scrum half Martyn Harrison in the 49th minute . |
13 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
14 | But none of it made any difference . |
15 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |