Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] little [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The products are good enough to need little in the way of revamping and apart from the odd addition to the range or a change of packaging little of any interest happens to the product . |
| 2 | While the relative share of employment and social security benefits varied enormously from one country to another as sources of income for lone parents , maintenance payments generally contributed little to the income of lone parents , even if widows are excluded . |
| 3 | Some 15 years after the start of the modern women 's movement in the US , most men still do little of the housework or child care , still feel enormously threatened by wives who work or ( worse ) earn more than they do , and still abandon their children financially or emotionally after a divorce . |
| 4 | The concentration of tissue plasminogen activator , however , was 20 to 70 times greater than that of urokinase in both groups of patients and therefore urokinase probably contributes little to the overall fibrinolytic activity . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Her betrayal probably meant little to Urquhart , she considered , when he was charged with preventing the betrayal of a nation . |
| 7 | But since the mare has won five of her last six races , that probably means little to trainer Mary Reveley . |
| 8 | The validation experiments suggested that lymphocytes probably contribute little to overall measured metabolism . |
| 9 | Breeding success , judging from a long series of reports from Rye , has also changed little since 1947 ; the Rye figures show an average brood size ranging from 5.7 to 9.7 , and averaging 7.8 . |
| 10 | But nearly half of all the pasta eaten in Britain is the canned variety , which often owes little to its Italian ancestry . |
| 11 | The picture which emerges from this kind of work highlights collective action and collective advantage , but often says little about whether all the individuals involved in this enterprise benefited from it in equal measure . |
| 12 | I have so far said little about variation , the third property required for evolution along with multiplication and heredity . |
| 13 | We have so far said little about the way the Stress Syndrome spills over into teachers ' personal relationships out of school . |
| 14 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Proteon Inc puts the need to fire 15% of its workforce — and the consequent $2.7m loss for the quarter to April 3 ( CI No 2,156 ) down to the fact that — in common with most other manufacturers in its area — is now doing little of its own manufacturing but sub-contracts most of it in order to benefit from application of the latest techniques in areas such as surface mounting . |
| 15 | Content often left little to the imagination , with one candidate listing ‘ winning a prize for dressing up as Kylie Minogue at the Finchley carnival ’ among his or her achievements , while another left nothing to chance and scrawled ‘ YOU CA N'T LIVE WITHOUT ME ! ’ at the end of his CV . |
| 16 | New and increasingly stringent fire regulations have to be accommodated and licensing magistrates — who often care little for the architectural integrity of historic pubs , but are principally concerned with good and easy supervision of the pub clientele — have to be appeased . |
| 17 | Plastics — that here leave little to the imagination — were widely used in fashion . |
| 18 | Such bodies surely need little in the way of encouragement before making full and frank disclosure . |
| 19 | We have however said little about the behaviour of the state . |
| 20 | A crowd of about 2,000 gathered on the Mapplewell Junior and Infant School playing fields to sing hymns , and , of course , Handel 's ‘ Hallelujah ’ chorus — a programme that again differed little from their original one , or that of Holmfirth . |
| 21 | It was frequently used by statesmen — Palmerston , Gladstone — to provide a moral gloss to a foreign policy that actually owed little to principle and much to the pragmatic calculus of the balance of power . |
| 22 | It was all too clear that the writers actually understood little about the subject matter , and that the understanding they succeeded in imparting to the public was correspondingly less . |