Example sentences of "have only [art] small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The herring gull has only a small chance of grabbing a nestling in the face of such opposition , and no chance whatever of sneaking up on an unguarded chick unnoticed by adults . |
| 2 | D. Although jobs in light industry are increasing , with a few in each town , the region still has only a small proportion of its workers in manufacturing . |
| 3 | ‘ Anker stout has only a small percentage of the market so though bar owners will agree to stock it they will usually insist on selling Guinness as well , ’ explains . |
| 4 | The left has only a small window of opportunity in which to put its views across ; it needed every week and month it could get . |
| 5 | Greenpeace and others also point out that the HMIP has only a small team of monitors and will not be able to perform the tasks of the NRA in this sphere . |
| 6 | It has only a small interest in furniture at present , having built up an enthusiastic stock market following with an unbroken record of sales and profit growth in bathroom and kitchen equipment since its was founded in 1979 . |
| 7 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 8 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 9 | If the vehicle for the institutional investors is a limited partnership , it is likely each underlying investor will have only a small share of Newco , which will be insufficient to make Newco its 51% subsidiary . |
| 10 | From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found . |
| 11 | At move 40 , Karpov seemed to have only a small advantage . |
| 12 | I know we 've only a small garrison left , but he ca n't get in and you 're hardly a runaway slave , no matter what de Raimes intended in the past . |
| 13 | " Somehow I do n't think they look right planted out in the ground when you 've only a small space to use , " explains Tricia . |
| 14 | The earl had only a small household with him at Huncote , but even so they were ten at the high table , and all male , since the countess and her women were left behind in Leicester . |
| 15 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 16 | The exclusive " Annie Thompson " design had only a small flap — that was adequate in normal circumstances — but near disaster in an emergency , when I could not even resort to the era of the " Flapper " in her cami-knickers , and go down one leg . |
| 17 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |
| 18 | Jencks , referring to income from all sources including work , concluded that when social class background and measured ability were taken into account , schooling had only a small effect on income . |
| 19 | He had only a small shop ; it was difficult , in Budapest , for a Pole . |
| 20 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 21 | BARE ROOTED : This means the trees have been pulled up by their roots and have only a small chance of survival if planted out . |
| 22 | Hence we argued that , for people already in work , changes in after-tax rates have only a small effect on hours of work supplied . |