Example sentences of "although [adv] a small [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although only a small minority of Europeans live in disadvantaged rural areas the land which they occupy constitutes as much as half of the total surface area of western Europe . |
| 2 | Although only a small minority of elderly households lack basic amenities or live in unfit dwellings , it is also important to question the suitability of the housing stock for older people 's needs . |
| 3 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 4 | However , Marine Harvest , the former Unilever subsidiary which was bought over by the US MariFarms Inc Group last year , has remained in the US market although only a small proportion of its 10,000 tonnes production from Scotland is sent there . |
| 5 | Although only a small number of pupils in Wales completed the tests in Welsh , no problems were found specifically relating to the Welsh language in translated tests . |
| 6 | Although only a small number of weapons had been eliminated , scientists had calculated that just 5 per cent of the weapons that existed were sufficient to destroy the world . |
| 7 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |