Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] small [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere national language maps are exceptionally complex , ranging from large and clearly educationally viable groups like Hausa or Luganda through progressively smaller units to situations where numbers speaking the mother tongue are very small or very scattered . |
| 2 | The assumption seemed to be that through some mechanism or other , the additional allocation of relatively small sums to be used for capital projects would moderate the problems of the inner-urban areas . |
| 3 | The short-term tests are quite sensitive — they can detect significant changes with very small concentrations to chemicals . |
| 4 | The most famous example is the Rainbow Lobby , which reminds donors in unreadably small footnotes to its fliers that it is not affiliated with Jesse Jackson 's Rainbow Coalition . |
| 5 | These structures vary from quite small refuges to the impressive strongholds . |
| 6 | The PR system used in the Weimar Republic of 1919 to 1933 had made it all too easy for very small parties to be represented in the Reichstag , to the detriment of firm governance . ) |
| 7 | We have suggested that the lost berths could quite easily be replaced by a mixture of pontoons , remaining pile berths and by very small additions to existing marina complexes . |