Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] little as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe in a group of sovereign and nation states cooperating together for their mutual advantage , principally through the means of a single market , regulated as little as possible . |
| 2 | Yet his partners contributed relatively little as the runs were steadily knocked off and his century was passed ; come the last over and nine were needed , and it was a leg-bye off the final delivery that earned England their win . |
| 3 | He has several businesses in the district — a bobbin mill , a gunpowder factory , a cotton mill , and more — and what they have in common is that the people — usually women and children — who are unfortunate enough to be employed in them are driven as cruelly as possible and paid as little as possible . |
| 4 | If you collected as little as I gram of this toxin it would be enough to kill a hundred thousand average-sized men . |
| 5 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
| 6 | Farm incomes averaged as little as £442 per annum , but were regarded as providing ‘ a useful — even essential — supplement to other non-farming sources of income ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , some of the players got as little as £10,000 , others £15,000 , others £25,000 — it depended on how much they were able to negotiate for themselves . |
| 8 | Quite often these royal summit meetings produced as little as their much-vaunted 20th-century counterparts , but , like them , they did at least keep open channels of communication . |
| 9 | I have n't seen her since I left Plumford , and I saw as little as possible of her before that . ’ |
| 10 | It mattered as little as it seemed to matter to Lucy that they would have — yet another — three weeks apart . |
| 11 | In some areas this resulted in generous secondary provision , whilst other areas did as little as possible . |
| 12 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 13 | Like their ancestors , the Mennonites still shunned buttons and pockets , relying on hooks and eyes ; they refused cars and engines , preferring horsepower ; the Mennonites nevertheless reclaimed land from the river and sea , regulated the flood planes and wanted as little as possible to do with the evils of the outside world . |