Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] too little " in BNC.

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1 Tabel has received too little credit in the standard literature — Hubbard dismisses him as some sort of shadowy figure and takes little trouble to describe the 1721 harpsichord .
2 Another charge is that Mr Bush has given too little thought to the nature of a post-war settlement .
3 On the other hand , critics claim that the government has allocated too few resources to housing and has given too little emphasis to the needs of those ‘ at the bottom of the pile ’ in the housing market — the homeless and those on low incomes .
4 Japan has done too little , too late about tightening money policy and deflating its financial bubble .
5 They keep losing good business by not wanting to give credit or by wanting to give too little .
6 Also , the Paasche index tends to give too little weight to those goods whose relative prices have increased over time .
7 The ‘ meaning ’ theist , on the other hand , may sometimes claim to need too little — as in the case of the existentialist approach outlined in the last section .
8 It might have invested too little in building its capital stock , thus perhaps enfeebling itself in future competition with foreign rivals .
9 Such industries will tend to produce too little .
10 The two other potential candidates , Ronnie Hampel and Tom Hutchison , who joined the board in 1985 , were deemed to have had too little boardroom experience .
11 If he felt , sometimes , that he had heard too little of that interview of Primaflora 's , and that there was something of desperation now in her love-making , he did n't pursue it for once ; and even the matter of Katelina remained only as an anxiety held well in check .
12 He liked the Shah personally , but , as he later acknowledged , he had been so intent on promoting British exports to Iran that he had given too little weight to many of the country 's problems .
13 Lizzie grumbled and said she was getting thin and doing too much , but then Lizzie would have grumbled if she had done too little .
14 So I 've written too little liquor for them , a wonderful word which is actually the proper word , called onigohydromonous
15 Land suggested that Alvey 's group did not consult enough of the people who would use advanced computers ; that it had paid too little attention to international collaboration ; and that the committee focused on too narrow an area of activity .
16 Ways of teaching RE to young children have received too little attention , and teachers are given woefully little training — consequently the one mentioned in the article is probably left to teach as she was once taught .
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