Example sentences of "[adv] a small number " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 2 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 3 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 4 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 5 | The existence of these different anatomical plans , without intermediates , again raises the question of whether there are only a small number of possible body plans , represented by the existing phyla , or whether we are looking at the end results of a series of historical accidents . |
| 6 | However , only a small number of overseas visitors and speakers attend each year , and the festival hardly merits its ‘ International ’ billing . |
| 7 | At first , only a small number of companies were involved in the DTI Link programme , but participation has now improved . |
| 8 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |
| 9 | Cattle-ranching requires only a small number of cowboys and large tracts of land , which could alternatively be intensively cultivated , with the result that there is underemployment of labour and a low physical and economic return per unit of surface area . |
| 10 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 11 | AROUND 7000 PLANT-DERIVED MEDICINAL COMPOUNDS USED IN WESTERN MEDICINE COME FROM ONLY A SMALL NUMBER OF PLANT SPECIES … |
| 12 | Among the very many antimetabolites which have been investigated , only a small number have shown the combination of properties necessary to be therapeutically useful . |
| 13 | Only a small number of men accompanied him into the forest . |
| 14 | He suggested that in early spatial searches for sites ‘ only a small number were ever identified in the first place because rigorous searches could not be performed by manual means with poor quality data ’ ( Openshaw 1980 : 289 ) . |
| 15 | In the case of the incubator thesis , there is evidence ( certainly from London — Nicholson , Brinkley and Evans , 1981 ) that few sections of industry seek out inner-urban locations , and that only a small number of companies migrate outwards in the classical fashion . |
| 16 | Most of the university and polytechnic libraries replied to the survey but only a small number of colleges did so . |
| 17 | Experiments using lasers give very accurate results ; they are also extremely sensitive , so only a small number of atoms are required . |
| 18 | Only a small number of PAT dogs work on units for the mentally ill , and such work can be most rewarding for dog and patient alike . |
| 19 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 20 | Since the whole edition was of only one thousand copies and only a small number had been circulated when the suppression was ordered , this is obviously a rare book and one that is likely to be costly unless the seller is ignorant of its history . |
| 21 | Only a small number of the company can have Jaguar cars , for instance . |
| 22 | ‘ Only a small number ’ , says a spokesman . |
| 23 | Even if you work only a small number of hours , you still need to review and assess your progress on a regular basis . |
| 24 | It accepts only a small number of students onto its course ( nine last year ) which was established in 1985 as a joint venture with the Getty Conservation Institute . |
| 25 | They believed the existing system worked to the enrichment of only a small number ; national benefit could be derived from legitimate commerce with a fertile Africa only if the slave trade did not create misleadingly attractive alternatives . |
| 26 | Organizations can absorb only a small number of people with these work goals . |
| 27 | With very few exceptions , almost all the routes are on rough , near-virgin limestone , for only a small number of the easier classics have become polished — sadly , but perhaps inevitably , including the superb slabby pillar of Marie ( HVS5b ) . |
| 28 | At this stage , however , only a small number of men were so closely identified with the Woodvilles that they were perceived as a threat by Richard . |
| 29 | Illegitimate births formed only a small number of the total registered births before 1750 , but by the end of the eighteenth century an illegitimacy ratio of 5 per cent was common and by the middle of the nineteenth century 20 per cent was often the norm . |
| 30 | They would however presumably agree that since the great majority of manufacturing firms are small businesses and employ only a small number of people , there would still be scope in manufacture for a considerable extension of the industrial co-operative sector . |