Example sentences of "a [noun] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A splendid Arctic picture with snowy mountains , icebergs and so on had as a centre-piece a small hole in the ice with a board saying , ‘ Danger ’ . |
| 2 | As a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to even write home about . |
| 3 | Headlines in a US paper saying that the Open Software Foundation has dropped Tivoli Systems Inc 's management framework from its Distributed Management Environment are flat out wrong and creating unnecessary waves : as our sister paper Unigram.X has already said , DME 1.0 is being made fully compliant with the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker , a specification that post-dates development of both DME and the Tivoli framework and as a result a small piece of low-level code is being reworked , hardly something to write home about , and the Foundation says Tivoli 's framework remains central to the object management framework . |
| 4 | In a bureau a small reduction in costs would be followed by a smaller increase in the budget . |
| 5 | After a time a small boy emerged from the banana grove carrying a kerosene stove , a teapot , a glass , a home-made seisha and a bag of bread . |
| 6 | What distinguishes curved space–time from flat space–time is this : the frame in free fall at x differs from the frame in free fall at an event a small distance away , at . |