Example sentences of "but it [vb past] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She screamed , but it had little effect , just added to the confusion that reigned in the room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 6 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 7 | The organist spiritedly played Art Garfunkel 's Bright Eyes , the theme of Watership Down — her favourite book , but it brought little comfort . |
| 8 | It was described as Italianate , but it bore little relationship to the contemporary light Italianate villas of the United States and of English country houses . |