Example sentences of "[verb] little [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under certain circumstances , reading goes little beyond this level of comprehension . |
| 2 | The French monarchy probably benefited little from this horde of officials , who lay , in the words of a contemporary Englishman , ‘ as thick as the grass-hoppers in Egypt ’ . |
| 3 | They suspected they would gain little from this particular endeavour , but anything that supplemented their income was worthwhile . |
| 4 | The independence which they had won was qualified , and in the long run the king lost little by this switch : he could still tax the clergy — and did so frequently — and he could convoke them when it would have been impolitic to convene the laity in parliament . |
| 5 | I thought little about this prospect or indeed , about the opposition , as I was not intending to go the full distance after my exertions in the previous day 's 10K . |
| 6 | The average figure means little in this case , however . |
| 7 | The Royal Society seems to have achieved little in this direction in its early years ; in Paris , however , the academie fostered someone who worked diligently at the applications of science . |
| 8 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |