Example sentences of "[vb pp] so little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention . |
| 2 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 3 | If there is one lesson to emerge from consideration of the changing balance of dependence and independence in old age , it is the flexibility and adaptability for which old people are given so little credit . |
| 4 | She feels angry that the public were given so little information and were exposed to such large amounts of radiation , unable to take any precautions to protect themselves . |
| 5 | It may well be the reason why this motility pattern has previously attracted so little attention . |
| 6 | Is this why we have made so little progress ? |
| 7 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 8 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 9 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 10 | I wake up hating myself and fabricating reasons why I 've had so little sleep — I was woken in the middle of the night by a phone call , my cat kept jumping on my bed all night . |
| 11 | She felt sleepy rather than tired , as a result , she told herself , of having had so little sleep of late . |
| 12 | In the same spirit , ISS drew attention to the importance of HMI work on ‘ areas of experience ’ which seem to have had so little influence on TNC . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd had so little education , but he loved books and believed learning was the key to living . |
| 14 | It seemed so sad that Mrs MacAllister should have had so little time to enjoy this beauty and that he should be left here by himself . ’ |
| 15 | They 've got so little space . |
| 16 | I mean the only reason I 'm I 'm running up these debts is that now I 've got so little capital left , that I 've got to keep the capital for sheer disasters like the boiler . |
| 17 | Sandy means an awful lot in that old lady 's life and she does occasionally reach the point when she 's got so little money left that believe it or not she has to choose between buying food for herself and buying dog food for Sandy . |
| 18 | Alright , but you know , you 've got so little time , you know , fifteen minutes is very , very short period of time , so whatever you say |
| 19 | The Prime Minister 's speech was pitiful , not just because policies had collapsed but because he 'd spent so little time preparing it , so busy was he trying to help his chum . |
| 20 | Given the pre-eminence of the multi-national corporation in international development , it is surprising that it is accorded so little attention in development literature … . |
| 21 | Never before have I had so good a time or taken so little medicine . ’ |
| 22 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |