Example sentences of "quite a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wild form of this bird , the rock dove , is not a great traveller and spends its life within quite a small home range . |
| 2 | Quite a small bevel is adequate for this purpose so in cases where a square has to be turned over , such a small bevel on each side is the solution . |
| 3 | A power that had been delegated previously is therefore removed , usually in quite a small way , by an instruction that in such and such a case the matter is to be referred upwards . |
| 4 | With a turnover of over stlg13m it 's quite a small profit margin for any business to be making but I could still do with tickets being half the price they are . |
| 5 | He was quite a small man , about five feet in height , poor and shabby-looking . |
| 6 | ‘ My dad is quite a small man . |
| 7 | Suddenly I was very aware of the vulnerability of my nose and front teeth , should they happen to come into contact with the granite of Porteniel 's pavements at any velocity above quite a small fraction of a metre per second . |
| 8 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 9 | Dwarfs and miniatures are becoming increasingly popular as you can grow a large , varied collection in quite a small space . |
| 10 | Earlier than that I have a problem and it is my problem ; if you look at the 500 or so records I have produced there is quite a small percentage either on original instruments or of pre-Classical music . |
| 11 | This gives quite a small buttonhole . |
| 12 | It was quite a small type , rarely weighing as much as 320kg , with short , thin legs , a proportionately large body , ridged backbone , big-bellied ( the Red Poll still has a good rumen capacity for digesting quantities of low-grade roughage ) , rather plain and very lean , with a thin ‘ snake ’ head , always polled , and a large baggy udder with prominent milk veins . |
| 13 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 14 | He speaks with really quite a small vocabulary which suggests he is unused to expressing himself eloquently . |
| 15 | In reality it is impossible to estimate the probabilities P ( wi|w1 , … , wi-1 ) for all but very small values of i , and only for quite a small vocabulary . |
| 16 | It was quite a small affair , but they took advantage of the occasion to burn some of their old clothes , throwing them on the fire with gleeful cries of ‘ Rubbish ’ . |
| 17 | Right , I , I 'm quite a small building , erm , I got scary stuff in me . |
| 18 | So at that time , the midwife would only come for a a quite a small proportion of the time then ? |
| 19 | It describes , too , the extraordinary effect of the collapse of quite a small sewer . |
| 20 | Despite the number living in what was quite a small cottage , Mrs. Burden had turned the front room into a shop selling tobacco , confectionery and small oddments . |
| 21 | We do have erm it 's rather you know , it 's it 's quite a small amount |
| 22 | I had about four hours to spend looking around Ipswich which was plenty of time as Ipswich is quite a small town . |
| 23 | There were twelve on the party , quite a small number . |
| 24 | It is quite a small world , and sooner or later we might be lucky enough to get someone really close to Leeds on the list . |
| 25 | If you look at er the erm the er papers , what 's the book called , the order of proceedings , you 'll discover that we are quite a small body of four a convenor , vice convenor four ministers four elders four others and one representative from each of the four faculties erm of divinity .. from those members of the faculty who are members of the Church of Scotland . |
| 26 | ‘ It was quite a small group , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Socially the definitions were not so clear , though the ‘ middle class ’ obviously included all the above groups , provided they were wealthy and established enough : businessmen , property-owners , liberal professions and the upper echelons of administration , which were , of course , numerically quite a small group outside the capital cities . |
| 28 | These usually make quite a small pool and can frequently be purchased from department stores as well as from garden centres and water-gardening specialists . |
| 29 | Dear me , sir , you possess good sense , I see , ’ and Calatin looked pleased and slapped Fribble on the back which , as Fribble later pointed out , was rather alarming , because — ‘ Although he 's quite a small giant as giants go , ’ — Calatin was still twelve feet tall and his hands were like York hams . |
| 30 | Lots , it 's quite a small area , but they 're really quite , quite neatly packed in . |