Example sentences of "with so little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With so little fat in the diet I would n't have been surprised to receive reports of dryness , but I had no reason to worry .
2 More than likely his younger brothers and sisters would welcome a new mother , but he was too nearly a man to take kindly to any woman set with so little warning in his own mother 's place , especially when this new incumbent stood to gain a crown as well as a ring .
3 Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’
4 We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal .
5 God , it hurt to think that their love-making meant so little to him that he could dismiss it with so little difficulty .
6 She made a little rite of soaking her feet in a corn cure called ‘ Reudel ’ , and as she lowered her feet into the bowl of steaming water there was again that little look , that narrowing of the eyes and pursing of the lips , which said so much with so little disturbance of her features .
7 Poor women , receiving a gift with so little thought behind it !
8 If a third of the adult population viewed reading with so little enthusiasm , was it any wonder that many children were doubtful as to its worth ?
9 Dunleavy also wishes to distinguish between different levels of the bureaucracy in explaining why , contrary to budget-maximization accounts , privatization has met with so little resistance from senior officials .
10 But so much gallantry to be squandered with so little hope !
11 For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate .
12 Just a few paragraphs in and we are plunged into the fog and grime of the capital : in 1817 the American Ambassador was enveloped in a midday fog in Bond Street so thick that he felt tempted to ask how the English became so great with so little daylight .
13 That it will reach 130mph was no surprise but to do so with so little fuss and noise was impressive .
14 So many films with so little time torture the eyeballs and numb the brain .
15 There can not be another 42 with so little use , this boat is in as new condition .
16 Several other sets of doors were dotted around the floor and , far off to the left , a black maw opened up in the wall , with so little light coming from it that Benny was certain the tunnel beyond turned several times before reaching the outside world .
17 She felt annoyed with herself , made miserable with so little cause .
18 There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) .
19 He kissed her lingeringly as if he had all the time in the world and she felt a shudder run through her at the response he was forcing from her with so little effort .
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