Example sentences of "which only a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few had any experience of moving about and getting together , and unless educated , which only a small minority was , had no expectation of improving their condition . |
| 2 | For instance , a major operation , starting a new school and going on active military service are threatening events often known in advance of occurrence , but which only a small minority of people will find sufficiently distressing to make psychiatric disorder a likely consequence . |
| 3 | Without this loss an equilibrium would be reached in which only a small proportion of the water in the atmosphere would be dissociated . |
| 4 | Currently the Highlands and Islands get regional aid under a rural development or Objective 5b status , to which only a small proportion of community aid is devoted . |
| 5 | Briefly , child psychology is a luxury which only a small section of the world 's parents can afford to consider : mothers need a respite from the most urgent problems of hunger , sickness and exposure before they can give much attention to questions of personal adjustment and maladjustment . |
| 6 | So flowers keep their nectar behind locks to which only a small group or even a single species has the key , which is of such a specialised design that its owner finds it difficult if not impossible to use on any other flower . |
| 7 | Another route has led to the formation of bands of close relatives in which only a small number of adults breed and these are assisted by helpers that live communally with them in a group territory . |