Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | When standing for any length of time , remember that a wide base is more stable than a small one . |
| 2 | But the windows were bigger than a small cottage would hold . |
| 3 | We crept downstairs like naughty children and Zaria collected a leather handbag no bigger than a small keg of beer from the hallway table . |
| 4 | Er bigger than the smaller ones still presumably , one until five with Jenny . |
| 5 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 6 | But new landfills are generally larger than the small ones which close . |
| 7 | The wind speeds did not change appreciably from Voyager 1 to Voyager 2 , and certainly seem to be more constant than the small features from which the speeds were obtained . |
| 8 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 9 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
| 10 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
| 11 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
| 12 | This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car , but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne . |
| 13 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
| 14 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
| 15 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
| 16 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
| 17 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
| 18 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
| 19 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
| 20 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 21 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
| 22 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
| 23 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
| 24 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 25 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 26 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
| 27 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
| 28 | The UBC was never more than a small minority of the parliamentary party , with a general attendance of about forty , and its influence was more a result of its being first in the field of opposition , than of its numbers or its members " economic power . |
| 29 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 30 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |