Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] too little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may feel guilty because my father died young , because I masturbate , because I earn too little or too much , because I have wind . |
| 2 | It would not be right for me to say that he was wrongly ennobled , because I know too little about him to be able to detect whatever surprising quality it was that commended itself to Harold Wilson for admission to the House of Lords . |
| 3 | ‘ I know too little of you , yet I know too much . |
| 4 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 5 | What the lie was , I had too little knowledge of history or science to know then . |
| 6 | Did you take too little or too much liquid on board ? |
| 7 | She had too little time . |
| 8 | ‘ And you stole because you had too little to eat ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You have too little faith in Fernie , ’ said Dalziel . |
| 10 | If you have too little space it 's actually crippling . |
| 11 | All of us , or perhaps , not all of us , but most of us do worry about our food , we eat too much , we eat too little , we eat the wrong thing ! |
| 12 | NEWSPAPER ARTICLES about the consequences of a shortage of oil ( or , as now , what happens when there is too much of the stuff ) appear almost daily but we hear too little about another vital industrial resource . |
| 13 | We know too little about the internal social relations of some of the earliest collective and collaborative forms to speak with any certainty of that stage . |
| 14 | He is to blame because we produce too little , export too little and import too much . |
| 15 | We have too little of this kind of thing ; Wittgenstein began it in Germany , but yours goes further . |
| 16 | It may well be obvious to the union , but at the moment we have too little information to judge . |
| 17 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |
| 18 | On the one hand the British were frequently too interested in East–West military disengagement in Germany , and on the other they showed too little interest in Western European integration . |
| 19 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 20 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 21 | If they too much caution , then erm , if they advise too little caution , then then things can run away with themselves . |
| 22 | But they knew too little about him and what they knew was bewildering . |
| 23 | Does the Home Secretary , in common with his right hon. Friend the former Prime Minister , now feel too painfully aware that the franchise round has ended in farce , with some companies losing their licences for offering too much and others failing because they offered too little ? |
| 24 | The latter , it may be remembered , tended to generate categories ( for example , biological or personality types ) that could only possibly incorporate small amounts of criminal behaviour ; that is , they explained too little crime . |
| 25 | Worse still , Europe may be losing out because it has too little high-technology manufacturing . |
| 26 | He is suspicious not because Read uses too much anthropological material , but because he uses too little . |
| 27 | It allowed too little time for the furore provoked by Howe 's resignation to die down . |
| 28 | Hamdi Ali Abdel-Wahab al-Banbi , hitherto chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation ( EGPC ) , took over as Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister from the long-serving Abdul Hadi Mohammed Qandil , whose dismissal had been widely predicted following criticism from foreign companies that he paid too little attention to exploration and production . |
| 29 | When I make the stake-out it takes too little time . |
| 30 | On occasions when he knew too little he preferred to keep quiet . |