Example sentences of "[adv] smaller [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers . |
| 2 | In this they were followed on a much smaller scale by unit trusts and on a very small scale by investment trusts . |
| 3 | The agouti-dispersed palm , A strocaryum stand leyanum , produces seeds that have a much smaller chance of survival if the pericarp around them is not removed and they are not buried . |
| 4 | UK consumers have a much smaller appetite for cheese than their continental neighbours . |
| 5 | But what we , what is , is unquestionably true is that it does mean that there is growing parceliza parcelization of ple of peasant plots which means that the average peasant now has a much smaller plot of land in which to try and support himself and his family than was the case earlier in Chinese history . |
| 6 | The fall in investment was so large that it was , by a considerable margin , the most important cause of the decline in aggregate demand , even though it accounts for a much smaller fraction of demand than consumer spending . |
| 7 | There are all kinds of reasons for Africa 's food problems — rich and precious land being used for cash crops instead of to grow food for local people ; a much smaller proportion of land fertile enough for cultivation than is the case in Asia or Europe ; farmers being paid such pathetic prices for food crops that they turn to coffee or tobacco in order to survive . |
| 8 | This shows a much smaller proportion of coinage lost ( and in use ) in Britain than in Italy . |
| 9 | A much smaller flash of light caught his attention . |
| 10 | One was that in many Phase 3 schools with fewer than 150 pupils on roll the allocation was only 0.5 , giving them a much smaller range of support and development possibilities than was open to those schools with a full-time enhancement . |
| 11 | The picture for home visits from a GP was very different , with a much smaller range of variation between types of household . |
| 12 | The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychological characteristics . |
| 13 | It has been argued that diesel takes a much smaller amount of process heat to refine , and is therefore more environmentally considerate all round . |
| 14 | With a much smaller baseload of night traffic it was no longer viable to retain separate services to Scotland on both the East and West Coast routes . |
| 15 | Much larger than the other black-necked geese , and distinguished from Barnacle especially by longer neck , generally brownish plumage and much smaller extent of white on face . |
| 16 | And the re-concentration of growth , and the much smaller impact of decline , in the south since the mid-'70s has been very much focused on the previously less industrialized regions ( and parts of regions ) . |
| 17 | There was a much smaller association between adversity measured at the first interview and symptoms at the second . |
| 18 | The oldest datable sound recording still in existence is just over one hundred years old , so our legacy covers a much smaller span of time than books , music , or paintings . |
| 19 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 20 | Down to the 1987 general election and beyond , nationalization on the old pattern played an increasingly smaller role in Labour 's priorities . |
| 21 | Its application meant that London received a proportionally smaller increase in funding , year on year , than many of the Home Counties . |