Example sentences of "but [adv] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That is to say , I do n't make a habit of it , but perhaps a small one . ’ |
| 2 | After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire . |
| 3 | But only a small portion of their material had superconducting properties . |
| 4 | There 's a considerable saving in buying hooks in bulk but only a small percentage of anglers make use of this facility . |
| 5 | But only a small child tugs at the heart-strings . |
| 6 | When sailing across the wind ( reaching ) the driving force D is acting in almost exactly the required direction , giving the board plenty of forward force F , but only a small amount of sideways force S , which the daggerboard can easily resist . |
| 7 | Most of the university and polytechnic libraries replied to the survey but only a small number of colleges did so . |
| 8 | Emergency University classes on a small scale have been organised , and some 3,000 students are expected to enroll for the University for June next , but only a small proportion of the University buildings can be released by the Army . |
| 9 | Gill and Jackson ( 1983 ) found that five of the thirty-five children were to some degree proud of their colour but only a small minority of the children had positive feelings about their colour . |
| 10 | At the end of the last Ice Age , some eleven thousand years ago , glaciers stretched across the middle of Europe and African birds had little difficulty in visiting their southern edges where , during the summer , there were rich flushes of insects and other foods but only a small resident population cropping them . |
| 11 | This covers a wide range of worship songs , but only a small amount of hymnody . |
| 12 | Patients in the MRC trial were over 65 years of age , but only a small proportion of cancer deaths in our study were in patients in this age group . |
| 13 | The MDP had won 24 per cent of votes , but only a small number of seats ; the NPP and SDP had polled about 5 per cent each and the MPFL and the MPG about 1 per cent each . |
| 14 | This was a famous and magnificent building but only a small , well preserved , portion remains . |
| 15 | When we introduced lexical stress we found that all content words but only a small proportion of function words were marked for lexical stress , and that the number of word paths was reduced primarily because these function words no longer matched parts of content words . |
| 16 | But only a small group of teachers and parents saw it get underway . |
| 17 | There are 12,500 on the Council 's waiting list for homes , but only a small proportion could be treated as a priority , she said . |
| 18 | But even a small donation can make a big difference to one child 's life . |
| 19 | Birds rarely employ death-feigning but sometimes a small bird held in the human hand has been seen to collapse motionless and lie very still . |
| 20 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |