Example sentences of "more than a small " in BNC.
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1 | It is also difficult to see more than a small part of the action while defending oneself , and difficult to convey to magistrates the naked aggression displayed . |
2 | No more than a small bullet that would make her bleed . |
3 | Selling such statements to thirteen-year-old girls is something which had more than a small measure of the bizarre . |
4 | This meant that not only did the boots weigh more than a small car , but I was obliged to wear four pairs of socks to stop my feet moving about in them and turning my heels into chilli con carne . |
5 | However , it will never be practicable to convert more than a small percentage of this into useful energy . |
6 | Very few people will have the time and desire to follow up more than a small number of the leads that are referenced ; and those who do will usually be aware of the older literature , in any case . |
7 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |
8 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
9 | As a result of the MRC 's calculations Martin claims , in an article in the spring issue of the Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection , that ‘ 300 rads average bone marrow dose is unlikely to kill more than a small percentage of those exposed ’ . |
10 | Training teams were not specifically mentioned by more than a small number of respondents although ‘ involvement in training ’ of all professional or supervisory staff , or all senior management , was more likely to be noted . |
11 | Broom-Parker had played no more than a small part in the plot to make sure Pendero was beaten , she was certain of that . |
12 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
13 | But there are further grounds for doubting that — even given full disclosure — more than a small minority of this one in five will be able to make practical use of their alertness to APR and credit cost information . |
14 | By contrast , we see Tradescant lying on his newly sheeted bed , washed and with beard neatly trimmed , wearing a superfine linen shroud of the highest quality , the top-knot having now become nothing more than a small tassel attached to the linen itself . |
15 | Of course , the NME has consistently only really been as good as the contemporary music , film etc it celebrates and criticises , and remains a decent barometer , despite the sporadically desperate-seeming attempts to apply bellows to no more than a small flame . |
16 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The position of the health professional — doctor , health visitor , or nurse — is not to pretend that their bit of health promotion is going to have more than a small additive effect to all the other necessary inputs , and they should be aware that they may be wasting their time if the other inputs are not there . |
19 | One thing you must not do , however , is add more than a small amount of paint to control surfaces . |
20 | The UBC was never more than a small minority of the parliamentary party , with a general attendance of about forty , and its influence was more a result of its being first in the field of opposition , than of its numbers or its members " economic power . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Even the most significant unions could recruit no more than a small fraction of the workers in their industry . |
23 | Nurse practitioners in most of the participating major departments managed no more than a small fraction of the patients each day . |
24 | Erm you could n't put erm anything that was you know more than a small pedal bin size . |
25 | For a trait influenced by more than a small number of genes we can not work out the genotype by a Mendelian experiment . |
26 | But although we are entitled , in our theory of the origin of life , to spend a maximum ration of luck amounting , perhaps , to odds of 100 billion billion to one against , my hunch is that we are n't going to need more than a small fraction of that ration . |
27 | In that situation X , being an unsecured creditor , is likely to obtain no more than a small percentage of the price he is owed . |
28 | Even with six vehicles it is not possible to visit more than a small percentage of the schools in England , Scotland and Wales . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Efforts to chart continuities in maladjustment almost invariably fail to find more than a small relationship between early attachment or infant behaviour and later emotional or behavioural adjustment , and although very early relationships and behaviour are seen to be very important , most researchers aiming to demonstrate this fact end by concluding that discontinuity rather than continuity is the rule ( e.g. Lewis et al. , 1984 ; Fischer et al. , 1984 ) . |