Example sentences of "had little success " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had little success , however , in his efforts to persuade the Dutch that Sukarno was a man with whom they could do business and found himself a reluctant pig in the middle , reviled by one side as a fascist imperialist and by the other as an irresponsible revolutionary . |
| 2 | The turbine had little success as it emptied the mill pond too quickly and thus became inefficient , a common problem with the early turbines . |
| 3 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 4 | Eisenhower , despite two terms , had little success in domestic policy ; Kennedy was only briefly in office and even Lyndon Johnson 's famed mastery of congress was very short-lived . |
| 5 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 6 | Thus a great event like the French Revolution had little resonance in Spanish opinion and the efforts at revolutionary propaganda had little success . |
| 7 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 8 | ‘ They used to advocate it for withdrawing heroin addicts — naturally they had little success . |
| 9 | in the Davis Straits whale fishery ; he had little success and did not go again . |
| 10 | Elsewhere he had little success . |
| 11 | Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . |
| 12 | Conciliation commission meetings between Moldovan and Dnestr representatives had little success , however , with the Dnestr parliament on June 17 rejecting proposals on implementing a ceasefire ( which had been supported by the Moldovan parliament on June 9 ) . |
| 13 | Even here the Communists had little success , their activity remaining on the third level of faction fighting and street corner abuse of the rest of the labour movement . |
| 14 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |