Example sentences of "a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN JANUARY 1988 a small group of 50 would-be volunteers met in the Ealing YMCA to learn about AIDS . |
| 2 | Many of the first group completed a training course to provide practical help in the home for a small number of people ill with HIV/AIDS . |
| 3 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 4 | She is a small , passionate , very striking young woman with deep shining black eyes and a glittering smile , talking ten to the dozen in a strong Moroccan accent . |
| 5 | A 10th Anniversary article in the Observer referred to it as ‘ a small back-room in an alley off London 's Fleet Street , ’ and within days the office was getting letters addressed to ‘ Amnesty , Alley Off Fleet Street ’ . |
| 6 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 7 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 8 | Writing about a small bust on a column , a thin sculpture in a series of four busts of which the others were fuller in form , she comments that ‘ the extremely thin proportions of the head contrast with the solidity of the base . |
| 9 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 10 | A small gallery may have space to show work in only one medium ; this may have a distorting effect on the activity of the group as a whole or of versatile individuals . |
| 11 | We are conscious of what Zuckerman does for Roth : when he helps a man to gather his spilt heart pills , it is Roth helping himself by assigning a small mercy . |
| 12 | RADA offers two to three scholarships per year for UK students , Webber Douglas offers two , RSAMD offer a small number of scholarships and Guildford School of Acting offers one to an acting student , for fees only . |
| 13 | LAMDA have a small number of awards ‘ some of which can give financial assistance . |
| 14 | Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat , |
| 15 | He speaks with really quite a small vocabulary which suggests he is unused to expressing himself eloquently . |
| 16 | And it can be particularly useful to have some background in this area , as a first job may often be that of an ‘ acting ASM ’ — particularly if you join a small touring group or a Theatre in Education company . |
| 17 | With the exception of a small group of public schools , there is the apparently simple distinction between state schools and Roman catholic schools which occurs in Britain . |
| 18 | The absence of a non-Roman catholic school in the immediate area and the naïve belief that they were empowered in some way to have a say in what type of school should appear on their housing estate — there was a small Roman catholic school which was to be expanded to cater for the growth of the population — may have sharpened catholic parents ' interest in having an integrated school . |
| 19 | A small number of empirical studies actually done in Northern Ireland have been invoked in the course of the debate . |
| 20 | Not forgetting the notes in the blue box , he wrote , number the slips perhaps or leave unnumbered , each slip to record date and place of purchase of one element of the glass , size and shape and substance before incorporation , brief history of its purchase , tube ticket , bus ticket , receipt , weather on day of purchase and weather on day of incorporation , temperature on day of purchase and temperature on day of incorporation , 1 tin peaches , bread , marmite ( small ) , remember laundry , one day like any other ( and Goldberg , pausing in his typing , picked up his pen and put a small question mark in the margin of his typescript and then carried on ) , now winter has come , but every night like every other , walking round the glass under the cold light , measuring the glass , preparing the glass . |
| 21 | With panels of glass this size in such a small room bound to be problems . |
| 22 | A small wooden peg called a spile is knocked into the soft core of the shive . |
| 23 | The Campaign of Real Ale was started in the early 1970s by a small group of beer lovers who was appalled by the heavily promoted keg beers that threatened to replace traditional draught ales . |
| 24 | A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide . |
| 25 | Fit the screw cap with the bung and airlock and put a small amount of water in the airlock . |
| 26 | We live in the fading twilight of an ‘ overpubbed ’ urban world ; a world which , even within living memory , gave the citizens of a small city like York the choice to drink in a different pub for every day of the year . |
| 27 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 28 | Wendy Vaughan began cooking professionally six years ago at the Old Rectory in Llansanfraid , North Wales — the family home she converted to a small hotel with her husband Michael when he sold his motor parts company . |
| 29 | ‘ An apprentice chef with us could be running a small unit after four years , budgets and all . |
| 30 | He was a small man , distinctly foreign in appearance , with a rigidly waxed moustache and an egg-shaped head which he carried rather to one side . |