Example sentences of "more than a tiny " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Brand 's hip was weakening his strength as an old wound opened up after hours in the water , and now the canoe was little more than a tiny hulk . |
| 2 | Perhaps , in some unimaginably distant region , the cosmos simply melted away into Chaos without sane dimensions — so that all the immensity of physical reality , all the billions of light years of stars and galaxies without number , amounted to no more than a tiny archipelago within a dire and senseless ocean of absurdity . |
| 3 | None of the proposals would raise overall retail sales or have more than a tiny effect on prices . |
| 4 | Central party funds could not pay more than a tiny proportion of the total cost of running a local association in every constituency ; not paying the piper they were unable to call the tune . |
| 5 | It is unlikely that more than a tiny proportion of farms will attain the bureaucratic structure associated with agribusinessmen farmers , but they are regarded suspiciously as possible Trojan horses introducing alien patterns of labour relations into the countryside . |
| 6 | So we may come to the third proposition of this book : THE SEDIMENTARY PILE AT ANY ONE PLACE ON THE EARTH 'S SURFACE IS NOTHING MORE THAN A TINY AND FRAGMENTARY RECORD OF VAST PERIODS OF EARTH HISTORY . |