Example sentences of "have [adv] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The USSR has only a small number of private cars , ’ says Bashmekov . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the case of Jupiter it has probably had only a small effect on the rate of loss of heat . |
| 9 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | I told myself I could live with the thought of having just a small part of your life and love , but when you put it into words a few moments ago I could see how awful it would have been . |
| 13 | Countries can have either a small or large share of world trade . |
| 14 | At move 40 , Karpov seemed to have only a small advantage . |
| 15 | There was more than one kind of love and he was lucky to have even a small share of hers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She was working but had only a small salary and ‘ soon found that it would be impossible to care for John 's upbringing satisfactorily . |
| 20 | For light to work by at the period concerned , a miner had only a small coffee-pot shaped metal oil lamp with a wick protruding from the spout . |
| 21 | He had only a small shop ; it was difficult , in Budapest , for a Pole . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 26 | We had then a small dining-room at the top of Number 1 l , which my wife and I used when we were alone . |
| 27 | BARE ROOTED : This means the trees have been pulled up by their roots and have only a small chance of survival if planted out . |
| 28 | ‘ I have only a small medical kit . |
| 29 | We have only a small staff . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |