Example sentences of "[adv] a small [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly a small crate appeared in the centre of the road ahead of her .
2 Perhaps through your letters page you will allow me this opportunity to urge all pencil manufacturers to consider making available their full range of leads ( coloured as well as graphite ) for holder use and saving annually a small forest of cedar wood and other trees used in producing the pleasing but expense and wasteful product .
3 The guests assembled in the Salle des Maréchaux , what Mme Moulton described as ‘ the Grand Salon ’ , and at nine o'clock a small procession entered consisting of the Court officers , all in their evening costume of blue with velvet collars , followed by several attendants and then , in the middle , the Emperor and Empress .
4 The place had certainly been nearer Nunes than Hadleigh , three miles nearer , though of course Hadleigh was a town and Nunes merely a small village .
5 If it is directed to his particular case , the Home Secretary should disregard it at this stage unless it was evidence at the trial ; if directed to penal policy in general , it is merely a small part of his information as to public opinion .
6 What was built in eighteen forty seven , and opened in eighteen forty seven , was merely a small branch line , of two and a half , three miles , from this town , to , where it say er er made a er a connection and and a small junction there .
7 After his retirement , my father no longer found himself in command of an Ordnance Base Depot supplying the whole of the 8th Army , but merely a small cottage in Hampshire .
8 He hoisted up a plank to sit on and then let down a small rope .
9 The Cranny River tumbles down a small glen of its own , not counted among the famous Nine .
10 Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year .
11 Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation .
12 They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water .
13 His mind a careful blank , he reached to the shelf over it and took down a small plastic bag .
14 Other small inherent errors are : An increasing speed will cause an apparent nose-up attitude ie , the bar will move down a small amount .
15 Now this sounds as though it 'll actually make quite a difference to perhaps a small farmer .
16 Its parliamentary performance , narrowly viewed , is perhaps a small element in determining the fate of the government party ( and opposition ) in an election .
17 According to this image , somewhere between ten and thirty men came to arrest Jesus — a Jewish functionary or two , some representatives of the High Priest ( one of whom has his ear injured by Simon Peter 's sword ) , presumably a contingent of the Temple guard , perhaps one or more Roman officials and even perhaps a small unit of Pilate 's soldiery .
18 I think it 's perhaps a small consideration but it does impact on increased demand for those central services .
19 For the local researcher , the implication is that the surviving field monuments of the prehistoric period are only a part , perhaps a small part , of the contemporary Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape , and that local topographical changes of soils , relief , and sedimentation might have buried or removed other more important parts of such settlement evidence .
20 Perhaps a small bet on who can stop first ?
21 But more often the numbers are such that one or perhaps a small number of different releases are duplicated and sent out by post or by telex to media selected from the lists detailed in Chapter 2 .
22 We are left only with the memory of fleeting colours , perhaps a small note-group which appears to be half-familiar ( like something we have heard before ) , or some spectacular moment like the boom of a gong .
23 With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel .
24 With this in mind , it seems that the program would benefit from some basic drawing tools and perhaps a small library of symbols and clipart , in order to give the program a more graphical feel .
25 This is because the profit function before the change must have been horizontal at the optimum , so a small change in the optimum price will make only a marginal difference to the firms ' profits .
26 The Reynolds number ranges appear short , but this is deceptive ; there is a large change in the fraction of the fluid in the pipe that is turbulent as one goes through the range , and so a small change in Reynolds number is associated with a large change in the non-dimensional pressure drop .
27 It 's a high seat , so a small child is able to see out of the window , and the ‘ recline ’ control is easily reached .
28 From 1867 onwards it became clear that the boy must begin to learn his métier as heir to the throne and so a small household was established .
29 But it is very difficult to blow slurry straight down a tube , so a small tanker or nurse tank is placed between the two . ’
30 As a relatively small number of library authorities carry out a high amount of training , so a small number of libraries spend a high proportion of the money budgeted : 19 libraries accounted for 55% of this money , although employing just under a quarter of all staff .
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