Example sentences of "had little impact " in BNC.

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1 Her comments on interest rates had little impact on financial markets but they appeared to underscore the Government 's commitment to holding up the pound .
2 Chancellor Nigel Lawson 's Tory conference speech had little impact .
3 However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised .
4 In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) .
5 Top-up funds from parents had little impact , however , in secondary schools where capitation levels ranged from £1.30 to £2.73 a pupil — money which usually had also to cover stationery and printing costs .
6 Even the General Strike of May 1926 had little impact as the five unions represented on the District 's divisional committee were not among the major participants at national level .
7 The radicals , such as Harold Macmillan in the Conservative party , the Independent Labour Party group and maverick individuals like Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement , were effectively isolated and had little impact on policy .
8 Their small numbers and low profile , combined with a ‘ hippie ’ ethos of ‘ peace and love ’ to which crimes involving the burglary of people 's homes and violence against the person are anathema , meant that this group had little impact on the community as a whole .
9 A Tokyo conference in November 1943 of leaders from nominally independent Southeast Asian countries was supposed to strengthen solidarity and cooperation , but had little impact either in Japan or in Southeast Asia itself .
10 Substantial though both these minorities were , their presence had little impact on the way the majority of Japanese conducted their lives .
11 Whatever the truth may be , it seems certain that for the decade 1900 to 1910 the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union had little impact upon the living standards of its members on British ships .
12 The study found , as we have implied for the UK , that local economic conditions were not to blame , as they had little impact on plant closures .
13 Again and again in the responses to our 1989 survey of all heads , those in Phase 3 schools commented negatively on their PNP staffing : that it had little impact ; that it even exacerbated their previous staffing problems ; that it was too little too late ; that the LEA did not understand the problems which their schools were trying to tackle .
14 This apparently had little impact on the extent of these intra- and extra-mural zones , though it may have encouraged the enhanced development of the central area in the third and fourth centuries .
15 It had little impact on the LSE students who , if they were in anything at all were likely to be inclined towards the Trotskyism of the International Socialists and the varieties of new leftism rather than this unknown creed .
16 A small number of Palestinian workers were permitted to enter Israel from Feb. 10 , but this had little impact on the mounting economic problems in the occupied territories .
17 A call from the Presidency on Aug. 6 for a ceasefire from 6 a.m. on Aug. 7 and for the withdrawal of Serbian and Croatian forces out of each other 's range within 12 hours had little impact and fresh attacks were launched near Glina and in Vukovar .
18 His research suggested that while the " Explanation approach " had little impact on infants , the technique did yield measurable benefits with 7 to 9 year olds .
19 Against this , some studies in the United States , where formal study of " civics " is more extensive than in Britain , found that taking such courses had little impact on political knowledge and attitudes .
20 But Field 's career had little impact on his native turf , let alone upon his British neighbours .
21 It was the 11th time his four-party coalition had survived such a vote in eight months but the news had little impact on markets which had already discounted a win .
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