Example sentences of "now [verb] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sukarno made a radio broadcast of sublime meaninglessness : Such rhetoric had gone down well in the past , but now made little impact . |
| 2 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |
| 3 | It was once an important port , but now contains little more than a wharf , the use of which is also limited by the extremely wide range of the Severn Estuary tides . |
| 4 | In the south , rebels from another group are pressing the government of President Siad Barre , who now has little authority beyond the capital . |
| 5 | Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions . |
| 6 | Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians . |
| 7 | He points out that the young fellow or girl with only modest ‘ A ’ levels now has little choice : they have to do without — or go across the water . |
| 8 | In comparison with Porter 's work , the lists of factors given by General Electric back in the 1970s now seem little more than a tentative beginning at an appropriate form of analysis . |
| 9 | It has n't been much of a week for my wife either ; she now sees little prospect of winning back even a beefburger space in the deep freeze . |
| 10 | An attempt at prediction , like that outlined above , would now have little chance of success . |
| 11 | Any decision on taxation has to be taken by the member states unanimously and there now seems little hope that the Commission can deflect them from the course they set out upon yesterday . |
| 12 | But while there now seems little doubt that the drawing is by Leonardo , the question remains as to whether the theft had royal approval . |
| 13 | Most Germans now took little interest in politics , becoming cynical about the authoritarian and military values of the past , and uncertain of what to put in their place . |
| 14 | The Nazis now had little need of the Volkstag , and it met only rarely . |
| 15 | Returning towards the island he saw five Ju88s heading out to sea and although he now had little ammunition left , attacked and thought that he had managed to damage one . |
| 16 | Apart from predictable duties , like that of sitting through a performance of The Family Reunion ( a play for which he now had little affection ) , he was asked to crown the Swedish snow queen at the winter festival : he told Robert Giroux that he had hoped this might be combined with the Nobel ceremony itself , so that he could wear ice-skates with his tails . |
| 17 | Speculation now had little to do with the real progress of companies : the buying and selling of shares had become an end in itself . |
| 18 | The people who live in Egypt now have little relationship to the ancient Egyptians , being ( apart from the Copts ) Arab invaders from the seventh century AD . |
| 19 | But they now have little chance of making the Anglo-Italian semi-finals . |
| 20 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 21 | It is also a long way away from the local management of schools ( LMS ) : local authorities , chief education officers and elected members of local councils now have little of the power of the early 1980s . |
| 22 | But the SPD could now find little alternative to Kohl 's policy of welcoming the SED 's demise , allowing refugees in from the East and exploring possible routes to German reunification . |