Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [art] small proportion " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Brixton has £180m of borrowings , all but a small proportion of this is borrowed at fixed rates so it does not suffer from higher interest rates . |
| 2 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 3 | Further , the failure of the police and courts to prosecute and convict more than a small proportion of rapists means that there is little effective legal deterrent . |
| 4 | When the library is a multi-media centre , it may be possible for the tape-slide sequence to be studied there , but in the typical school there would be severe limitations if more than a small proportion of students were set to do such study ; the library is usually too small for more than a tenth of the school population at best to use it at any one time . |
| 5 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 6 | Both Friends of the Earth and former CFC manufacturers , ICI , have acknowledged that the scheme has failed to collect more than a small proportion of CFCs from old appliances . |
| 7 | Now that , following Fryer v LTE ( see para 1.50 ) , a payment into court can be disclosed on an interim payment application , a defendant who has paid anything more than a small proportion of the value of the plaintiff 's claim into court will find it difficult to resist the application on this ground , especially as the court will usually order the interim payment to be paid out of the money in court . |
| 8 | It is not suggested that any but a small proportion of private homes are like this , but where such conditions do occur , it indicates that the vetting , registration and monitoring procedures are failing . |