Example sentences of "a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been arranging a little get-together . |
| 2 | His looming presence utterly cowed Rickie who whined something about only wanting to play Ellen a little night music , and that he had not meant any harm , and what was a guy supposed to be doing on this boat anyway ? |
| 3 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 4 | Lewis Offshore has a fabricated yard for the oil industry at Arnish Point , a little south of the town . |
| 5 | Stephen made his way down and crossed the Hilderbridge road a little south of Chesney . |
| 6 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 7 | The Second Austro-Hungarian Army ( Bö-Ermolli ) held the front between Dubno and a point a little north of the Tarnopol-Lemberg railway . |
| 8 | There are some 300 such places in south-west France , the finest of them a little north of here , in Gas cony , and they were built largely to a rectangular pattern of intersecting streets with a sometimes very generous town square in the centre . |
| 9 | The current afternoon start on Sundays does at least give the players a little weekend leeway and one morning to mow the lawn , lie in , or say hello to the wife . |
| 10 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 11 | — A little party — just a few friends — we are counting on you — tomorrow |
| 12 | They entered so late that Pitt had had plenty of time to prepare to attack them , and his expeditions captured Havana and Manila ; as a result Britain took the Spanish colony of Florida , an area with a loosely defined western frontier lying somewhere a little east of New Orleans . |
| 13 | Yes , ’ and Creed leaned back in his chair , ‘ we 're going to send Gorilla a little Christmas present . |