Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a smaller [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 2 | I did not dare take the whole brandy bottle , so I poured some into a smaller bottle to take away with me . |
| 3 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 4 | Some of this research suggests that in certain cases , for example the bauxite and aluminium industry , the global disposition of power is still very much in favour of the First World TNCs , while in other cases , for example petroleum and perhaps copper , the balance of power has shifted in recent decades , and the First World TNCs have to be content with a smaller share of the revenues . |
| 5 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 6 | The projector projects , not onto a screen but onto another film of , usually , the same size as the projected film , eg 35mm , though there is some advantage in terms of reduced graininess in projecting from a larger to a smaller stock , such as 65mm or VistaVision to 35mm . |
| 7 | If some of the flux produced by coil 1 does not pass through coil 2 ( see Fig. 4.7(b) ) then unc appearing in eqn ( 4.50 ) is smaller leading to a smaller value of mutual inductance . |
| 8 | The structure is two identical cuboids , each with a smaller cube on top , added later to confer greater importance to the monument . |
| 9 | Razak said afterwards that when Soviet officials told him that neutralisation was similar to collective security he replied that ‘ he appreciated this , but added that Malaysia preferred a neutrality plan which would be applicable to a smaller region such as Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 10 | However , these estimates do not take full account of the class of mutational events which lead to minor deleterious effects and which , by their large number , might impose a greater total genetic burden on the population than that from a smaller number of relatively more serious conditions . |
| 11 | It helps to put that in a smaller bracket , when I go three times that , minus that . |
| 12 | You , poor little one , were the victim of a pure overwhelming desire , and I of a smaller desire by no means pure ; and I feel much more abject than if that desire had been satisfied . |
| 13 | But the statistics reveal the economic consequence : a manufacturing sector in 1990 with a smaller share of GDP than it had in 1960 ( see chart 3 on next page ) . |