Example sentences of "[adv] a small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product . |
| 2 | If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion . |
| 3 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 4 | The Cranny River tumbles down a small glen of its own , not counted among the famous Nine . |
| 5 | Its parliamentary performance , narrowly viewed , is perhaps a small element in determining the fate of the government party ( and opposition ) in an election . |
| 6 | According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery . |
| 7 | Perhaps a small bet on who can stop first ? |
| 8 | But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 . |
| 9 | With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel . |
| 10 | With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel . |
| 11 | This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits . |
| 12 | The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop . |
| 13 | As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff . |
| 14 | He had brought in a small bottle of liquid . |
| 15 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 16 | However , only a small fraction of the paraprofessional work force around the world receives any kind of training beyond the most rudimentary orientation to their jobs . |
| 17 | But the battle over the sea dumping of nuclear waste , dramatic as it became , represented only a small fraction of a much larger problem . |
| 18 | Thus far only a small fraction of overseas investment of multi-national corporations has been allotted to agribusiness in the poor countries , but the amount is increasing . |
| 19 | Only a small fraction of the bureaucracy can directly benefit from its position of high office and crucial monopoly or oligopoly in negotiations and policy-making . |
| 20 | Opinion polls represent only a small fraction of all the social research which is conducted in Britain , but they have become the public face of social research because they are so heavily reported : on average there is at least one poll story in each copy of every national or local newspaper in Britain . |
| 21 | For a coarse to medium grained mature sandstone , with only a small fraction of clay , porosity ranges from 15 pu or more at around 2200 m to I pu or less below 6500 m . |
| 22 | International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business . |
| 23 | The new ground that had to be broken in terms of the aerodynamics , structure , passenger handling facilities and runway bearing strength of these weighty monsters represents only a small fraction of the problems that beset the regulating authorities not only in the USA , where most of them are built , but throughout the world in all the places where they operate . |
| 24 | The DN10 cDNA clone contains an alternatively spliced exon present in only a small fraction of P mRNA from human melanocytes and fetal brain ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 25 | In one sense this presents a misleading picture because only a small fraction of complaints against government is handled through such channels . |
| 26 | Most humans use only a small fraction of their total useful brainpower . |
| 27 | Soon only a small fraction of his original flock is running around his feet . |
| 28 | Only a small fraction of potentialities can be historically realized , and , therefore , the attitude-holder possesses belief themes , whose implicit argumentative meaning will never be realized . |
| 29 | Were the kinetic energy of the wind to be converted by the shock into radiant energy , the localized H-H objects could expect to take up only a small fraction of the wind 's energy , in which case the radiated power far exceeds that available . |
| 30 | He was a gregarious , hospitable man , and kind-hearted , although his charities represented only a small fraction of his disposable income . |