Example sentences of "[verb] little [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own search of 26 mid-nineteenth-century diaries for this book produced little worth noting . |
| 2 | The Hampshire powerhouse risked little by taking his first tentative net against the spinners late yesterday afternoon . |
| 3 | The authorities seemed to be doing little about tackling this social problem . |
| 4 | In the Newtonian sense of work , as force applied over a distance , land animals do little in getting from here to there . |
| 5 | It is hardly surprising that present educational systems contribute little to resolving the problems of DRAs . |
| 6 | ‘ Routine ’ blood tests contribute little in finding the cause of anaemia . |
| 7 | Summer flash floods achieve little beyond destroying crops . |