Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] small [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There were two separate issues for the research : ( i ) which pupils would be included in the testing ; and , ( ii ) if a wide range of tests was to be developed , each of them would be taken by different and fairly small samples from among the target pupils , how could the comparability of the samples be checked ?
2 Data sent by residential and very small businesses will normally be sent on the usual voice line .
3 The very name of this comely and quite small village which is situated to the east of Kingston upon Hull attracts attention .
4 Again the Monkey-boy together with a rather fragile-looking , unusually pretty and even smaller friend , ‘ 'Artley ’ , proudly led away the horse .
5 The pattern , which continued into the last quarter of 1991 , was one of large periodic issues by tender or by auction and frequent and usually small issues of tranchettes of tap stock .
6 Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves .
7 Trade union membership has fallen partly due to higher unemployment and partly through changes in economic structure with more self-employed and more small employers .
8 Analysed corpora are rare and only small examples of this genre are currently found .
9 In the autumn of 1986 , when Saxton and Bampfylde abandoned their previous employers , they had already prepared their future strategy : to work with only a selected and comparatively small number of clients in certain market sectors only , with an emphasis on finding the people needed to satisfy a client 's strategic needs rather than on the level of appointment .
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