Example sentences of "have had little " in BNC.

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1 Though she has had little education , her vocabulary is excellent : she fountains out ideas and observations at breathless speed .
2 The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success .
3 A Coopers & Lybrand report to the Government on the possibilities of privatisation was delivered in summer 1988 , but since then the group has had little indication of what its fate might be .
4 In the west it has had little success ; in the east it has been a smash .
5 The EC has had little to say about the Gulf , and to that few have listened .
6 At the time the UK feed industry was concerned the situation should not escalate , but , in fact , it has had little impact on trade .
7 The production of knitwear and of craft work in general has continued to increase in the Western Isles , although knitwear has had little success in Lewis and Harris .
8 The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) .
9 However , so far , it seems that this has had little influence on the redistribution of wealth and power in society .
10 The rise of the welfare state has brought much earlier retirement from work , but has had little impact on the low incomes typical of later life both past and present .
11 On active citizenship Labour has had little to say , although Labour spokespersons haves given support to the general idea of civic responsibility and the encouragement of a sense of community , which can be traced back to the nineteenth century traditions of civic virtue and community solidarity which are strong in the Labour party .
12 The role of generalization decrement in these experiments can be investigated by comparing the effects on excitatory responding of an added stimulus that has had little or no pre-exposure with those produced by a stimulus that has undergone latent inhibition training .
13 In these conditions , the government has had little option but to accept the kinds of changes which the international financial agencies want .
14 His as-yet unpublished review concludes that conservation has had little impact on overall energy policy .
15 PRESIDENT REAGAN 'S attempt to stop the export of American pipeline machinery to the USSR has had little impact on the construction of the 4451 -kilometre Siberian gas pipeline .
16 Certainly the MoD thinking on this issue has had little effect in delaying delivery of the four frigates .
17 Argentina 's foreign debt is $36 billion yet Admiral Gonzalez 's office in Hamburg has had little trouble in raising the cash .
18 This occupation has had little influence on its size .
19 Lastly , where the LDDC has belatedly entered into ‘ agreements ’ with local authorities , such as with Newham and Tower Hamlets , and helped to set up training schemes like SKILLNET , designed to improve the skill levels of local communities , it has had little impact so far on getting local people into Docklands jobs .
20 Even by the modest standards of the Supreme Court , American obscenity law has had little measurable effect since 1973 .
21 STRANGELY , the national coach of the Irish teams down the years has had little direct contact with the four provincial coaches .
22 The history of welded sculpture in this century has had little influence on my work .
23 If this seems too severe , there is no denying that the development of the industrial co-operative sector has had little reason over the years to feel grateful to the Consumer Movement .
24 The woman is often regarded as the nutritional head of the household , and yet she has had little or no training for this job .
25 Although childhood socialisation has been important in electoral studies , it has had little application in decision making studies .
26 She has hunted wild game , mainly roe deer and moose , and has had little impact on livestock .
27 One other feature of Richards 's work has had little impact in this country , but a much greater impact , as we shall see , in the United States : the demand that criticism be founded on theory .
28 Now you know , Roger , how that would affect an excitable horse who has had little strenuous exercise ?
29 It appears that the Gulf War has had little effect on exports to this area , although it should be added that much of the conflict post dated the period covered by the survey .
30 Wilks ( 1983 ) argues that linguistic theory has had little direct influence on parsing techniques .
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