Example sentences of "in small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many actors start in the fringe productions — in small theatres almost as intimate as television , material concentrating on highly detailed reality . |
| 2 | So we decided on a special release pattern — an opening in New York a couple of months before any place else , play-off in small theatres with long engagements , letting word of mouth build an audience . ’ |
| 3 | But after a time , as County Bank went for larger and larger transactions , Mr Wilson , who has a penchant for smaller companies , wanted to get involved in small development capital transactions and smaller management buy-outs . |
| 4 | In small country stations , a husband and wife team might run the station together . |
| 5 | The geographical distribution of foreign direct investment ( FDI ) in many developing countries has meant job openings for women not only in the cities but also in small country towns and rural areas . |
| 6 | Serve in small slices after a fairly plain main course . |
| 7 | Closely-related snow buntings Plectrophenax nivalis winter in small flocks where the snow is thinnest on the southern tundra , and fly northward to breed on the high arctic tundra in summer , when snow still plentiful on the ground ( Pattie , 1972 , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | Often flies fast in small flocks . |
| 9 | Gregarious , in small flocks . |
| 10 | More exclusively a desert bird than Desert Lark , usually avoiding bushes and even rocks ; frequently seen in small flocks . |
| 11 | This year Becker and Graf , who were born six miles apart in small towns near Heidelberg , cornered the major prizes at both Wimbledon and the US Open . |
| 12 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 13 | But in towns , even in small towns it is not the same . |
| 14 | It is difficult to persuade those who exercise authority in conventional terms that there are other forms of power than theirs : more diffuse but more pervasive ; less aggressive but more enduring , to be round in small towns and rural villages . |
| 15 | We know even less about supplies of cooking energy in urban India , especially in small towns . |
| 16 | And it is the relatively rich , in small towns and on the fringes of big cities , who create this demand . |
| 17 | Leaving aside the question of the relative competence of revenue and judicial officials , many magistrates , especially those in small towns , were young , inexperienced , and had very little knowledge of the island and its peoples . |
| 18 | Butchers in small towns were even less likely to reject cattle on the grounds that they might be stolen . |
| 19 | I 'm sure we 'll all be rooting for our boys in this one , or perhaps not , given that the only people who play it live in small towns in the Pyrenees . |
| 20 | The firm had several offices in small towns in the rural hinterland , and a partner from one of these would attend ‘ my ’ branch office on two days per week . |
| 21 | Telefonica de Espana SA and Diputacion de Barcelona — Barcelona Provincial Council — have signed an agreement to improve telecommunications in small towns , according to Computerworld Espana . |
| 22 | According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , some 75 banks have the right to sell insurance in small towns across 25 states . |
| 23 | It could remove banks ' existing right to sell insurance in small towns . |
| 24 | Throughout the post-1868 years the rural — urban balance was shifting away from the countryside in the wake of rapid population increase and industrialization , although up to the Pacific War at least half the population continued to reside in small towns and villages , and there was little absolute fall in the rural population until the late 1930s . |
| 25 | Therefore the Scott Committee recommended that , within rural areas , factories should be sited on vacant land in small towns rather than in villages or the open countryside . |
| 26 | The main concentrations of the elderly are therefore outside the metropolitan regions , and are more likely to be located in small towns than in villages or the open countryside — which tends to lack the public transport and range of local services that are important to elderly persons . |
| 27 | However , as the majority of schemes proposed was to have been in small towns where there was already a relatively good provision of council houses , they have often not been implemented . |
| 28 | They can get it in small towns and villages , not just from London . |
| 29 | As at Corbridge , they sometimes resemble rural dwellings , which should make us look again at some of the larger houses which occasionally occur in small towns further south . |
| 30 | Evidence for more exotic trades is also rather limited , except for the suggested school of mosaicists and sculptors at Water Newtons and Carlisles respectively ; it is not surprising , therefore , that mosaics are generally rare in small towns , even though they often occur in nearby villas . |