Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success .
2 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
3 She was reasonably attractive , and outgoing , and normally she had little difficulty in establishing cordial relationships in both her working and social life .
4 Elsewhere he had little success .
5 That questions and recriminations would creep in later she had little doubt , but for the moment she simply wanted to shut out the rest of the world , to step back into that circle of magic they had created , first in the pool , then in the factory car park when they had somehow made the rest of the world go away .
6 My case was more straightforward and quite honestly they had little choice but to uphold my appeal .
7 Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs .
8 Also he had little time .
9 Clearly he had little aptitude for meekness either .
10 So far she had little reason to believe him .
11 More than 75 million Soviet citizens lived outside their ‘ own ’ republic ( Kazakhstan alone contained more than 100 different nationalities ) , and very often they had little knowledge of the language of the republican majority .
12 Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage .
13 Yet even she had little access to his inner life .
14 The flight crews eagerly accepted the King 's hospitality ; our Tri-Pacer had been running so well we had little maintenance to do .
15 This is considerably larger than the particle size used by Korth ( 1979 ) , but since even they had little effect on the small mammal bone , two large clasts were added as a third stage , weighing 368 g between them .
16 There they had little hope of meeting , wooing or wedding even the most hideous and unsuitable Englishwomen .
17 The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 .
18 Bill Koch became acutely embarrassed that money was being donated to this party in his name , yet he had little cash of his own .
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