Example sentences of "it had little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy .
2 The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout .
3 Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating .
4 It had little relevance .
5 THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success .
6 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
7 In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership .
8 At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control .
9 But it did not manage the schools and outside London and several other cities , such as Bristol , it had little strength .
10 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
11 In the 1950s , the government of Colonel Oscar Osorio ( 1950–6 ) passed a law prohibiting prostitution in El Salvador , although it had little effect beyond filling the prisons for a short time .
12 She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room .
13 We had continuous news from the front , but unless it involved someone we knew , it had little effect on us .
14 It had little effect and she had to force herself into the driving seat and begin the return journey .
15 All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably .
16 Again and again in the responses to our 1989 survey of all heads , those in Phase 3 schools commented negatively on their PNP staffing : that it had little impact ; that it even exacerbated their previous staffing problems ; that it was too little too late ; that the LEA did not understand the problems which their schools were trying to tackle .
17 It had little impact on the LSE students who , if they were in anything at all were likely to be inclined towards the Trotskyism of the International Socialists and the varieties of new leftism rather than this unknown creed .
18 And you know it had little blobs , alright , leading up to the big long shit !
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