Example sentences of "it [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 2 | Although her initiative represented a reversal of her previous stance , it produced little progress [ see p. 37716 ] . |
| 3 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 4 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 5 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It made little difference . |
| 8 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After all , it made little difference : he would persuade Jean-Paul , Jean-Paul would persuade Louise ; the route was more circuitous , that was all . |
| 11 | We tried taking out the pith from behind the bud , and we tried leaving it in — it made little difference . |
| 12 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 15 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 16 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 19 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |
| 20 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 21 | In some ways this was a symbolic move , since it raised little revenue : existing exempt groups ( children , pensioners , the chronically ill and those on Income Support ) retained their right to free prescriptions . |
| 22 | And now , despite the fact that he 'd held her in his arms , it needed little imagination to guess that he did n't quite trust her . |
| 23 | She managed the ice-cream dessert a bit better — it required little effort to swallow — though she could n't taste a thing . |
| 24 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 25 | The organist spiritedly played Art Garfunkel 's Bright Eyes , the theme of Watership Down — her favourite book , but it brought little comfort . |
| 26 | Before the advent of molecular genetics , screening of newborns in the United Kingdom was generally regarded as ethically unsound because no treatment was available ; it offered little advantage to the family other than the possibility of terminating all subsequent male fetuses , more than half of whom would be normal . |
| 27 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 28 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 29 | In it he said that the Scottish financial sector did nothing to help the country 's economy , that it benefited only a selected minority , and that it put little back into Scotland . |
| 30 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |