Example sentences of "perhaps a trifle " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also was perhaps a trifle ironic that when Charles Manson wanted to have his life story told on film , he instructed his lawyers to get the Easy Rider team . |
| 2 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 3 | The inlays are mother-of-pearl and perhaps a trifle unusual in how they diminish in size up the neck … |
| 4 | Her neck was perhaps a trifle long and her head rather small but her features were symmetrical and her brown eyes large . |
| 5 | Perhaps a trifle optimistic as regards Silver Star . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps a trifle foxed , but that is all . ’ |
| 7 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |