Example sentences of "they have had little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before .
2 They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment .
3 They have had little success .
4 The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability .
5 Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved .
6 Besides , there have been so many opportunities for growth in countries that do not require local equity sharing that they have had little incentive to try to build businesses in those countries that do .
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