Example sentences of "[adv] only a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 2 | Obviously only a small portion of these neutrinos will come in the Earth 's direction , but still we ought to be in the path of about 80 billion billion billion neutrinos per second . |
| 3 | Experiments using lasers give very accurate results ; they are also extremely sensitive , so only a small number of atoms are required . |
| 4 | The cranes were unable to move around the yard with the lifeboats , so only a small part of the depot area could be used for this work . |
| 5 | However , works produced in only a small number of copies are often not received in terms of the Copyright Act , and instead are purchased to ensure that a copy is added to the collection . |
| 6 | In the brain of this animal , there is not only a small fixed number of cells , but there is also constancy of many other features : the connections made by each cell to others , whether each connection is excitatory or inhibitory , the neurotransmitter substances released , and whether a cell is spontaneously active or not . |
| 7 | The obligation to make or take delivery can be avoided by an offsetting purchase or sale before the settlement date , and normally only a small proportion of all contracts are settled by delivery . |
| 8 | Soon only a small fraction of his original flock is running around his feet . |
| 9 | For the trigram case it is still only a small percentage of the possible transitions that do occur , and 40% of those transitions only occur once . |
| 10 | Usually only a small number of different operation code field sizes are used , rather than a completely variable field size . |
| 11 | Right it 's usually only a small quantity needed , because although it is it 's used it 's continually sort of restored . |
| 12 | When determining their poll tax levies , districts were thus faced with already agreed demands from the counties , and their own precepts actually made up only a small proportion of the total amount community charge payers were required to pay . |
| 13 | This painful catalogue makes up only a small part of the inventory of the ‘ art ’ of the restaurant … |
| 14 | Usually , proctoscopy is only performed on known gonorrhoea contacts and these make up only a small proportion of female patients seen in the clinic . |
| 15 | The film as film , as ‘ text ’ , as visual artefact , takes up only a small place amidst this kaleidoscope of angles — and I have n't even touched on the economic aspects of production and reception , such as box office pressures , state subsidies , distribution and exhibition . |
| 16 | In the Khartoum region , female enrolment outstripped that of males at secondary school level , though women make up only a small proportion of students in the technical secondary schools . |
| 17 | The injected cells remained healthy within the liver parenchyma and corrected the phenylalanine defect for the normal life span of the mouse ( even though the cells made up only a small percentage of liver cells ) . |
| 18 | Were the kinetic energy of the wind to be converted by the shock into radiant energy , the localized H-H objects could expect to take up only a small fraction of the wind 's energy , in which case the radiated power far exceeds that available . |
| 19 | Agency workers and their close equivalents make up only a small minority of the temporary workforce and most of them are concentrated in a very narrow range of occupations , particularly those involving office or secretarial skills . |
| 20 | There were relatively fewer pure gangster films after 1933 but there were a large number of social or ‘ social-problem ’ films although even they remained as only a small percentage of the total Hollywood package . |
| 21 | Thus far only a small fraction of overseas investment of multi-national corporations has been allotted to agribusiness in the poor countries , but the amount is increasing . |
| 22 | So far only a small number of women have made it to the top . |
| 23 | But deep inside she knew she was n't as angry as she was pretending , that anger was really only a small part of what she felt . |
| 24 | One can think of companies like Hanson Trust which , though still present in transport , its original roots , is now a mighty conglomerate in two continents , or companies like W. R. Grace , far away from shipping now , or Allied in the States where chemical activities are now only a small part of the whole . |
| 25 | Deeply though a great deal of crime fiction today is rooted in the blueprint detective story , there is now only a small public for such books in their pure form and , I think , there are not so many writers who want to produce them . |
| 26 | Elkstone is now only a small settlement with a large farm to the south . |
| 27 | Once there is enough wind to plane , though , the back position comes into its own , since with the weight back only a small amount of the board is in contact with the water thus enabling high speeds . |
| 28 | Frequently only a small percentage of the offspring of mutants resemble their parents , with the rest reverting to type , but carrying the mutant genes . |
| 29 | But nowadays only a small fraction of raw materials is supplied internally , and drug innovation is far less a matter of luck . |
| 30 | If the figures in New South Wales follow a similar pattern , then only a small minority of reported cases would fail within Category 1 . |