Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 2 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 3 | Yet , perhaps because it was not televised , it produced mighty little stir . |
| 4 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 5 | It made very little impact . |
| 6 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 7 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 8 | In any event , though teachers continued to give reading their attention throughout the PNP period , it received very little attention in the Authority 's INSET and support programmes . |
| 9 | Publicly-controlled since 1943 , and a loss-maker for much of the period since , it came as little surprise when , Chris Patten , a junior Northern Ireland minister , announced plans for privatisation in 1988 . |
| 10 | It came as little surprise to the Commission in its work to be reminded both of the rich diversity which exists in the field of church music and of the very different attitudes and preferences to be found within our congregations . |
| 11 | It came as little surprise , therefore , that the close relationship appeared to be unaffected by Iraq 's August invasion of Kuwait . |
| 12 | It allowed too little time for the furore provoked by Howe 's resignation to die down . |
| 13 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 14 | The trouble with the poll tax , as with comprehensive education , was that it took too little account of how we really are . |
| 15 | In retrospect it was courageous legislation but it had curiously little bite . |
| 16 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
| 17 | It had very little warmth but the chilly air was helping to clear my head . |
| 18 | In the six northern counties of England , it had very little effect on the landscape , except in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 19 | Disappointed , though , that it had so little capacity , that the machine 's power was squandered so liberally on the user interface rather than running the applications . |
| 20 | Although the Foreign Office was embarrassed at the offence caused to Britain 's old ally Norway , it carried relatively little weight . |