Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] for a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never stash money in the house — either in little tins , jars or under the mattress except for a small amount for use in emergencies . |
| 2 | As there is no possible overlap with H-atom orbitals , the MO has the same energy as the oxygen AO except for a small charge effect . |
| 3 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 4 | The organisation is a community of scientists — it has no physical centre except for a small secretariat at UNESCO 's headquarters in Paris . |
| 5 | Cardiovascular mortality was not related to the duration of gestation except for a small increase in death rates in men born prematurely . |
| 6 | In the eighth century the Moors moved rapidly over Spain from their base in North Africa and occupied the whole country except for a small area in the north-west , between the Cantabrian Mountains and the sea . |