Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [adv] little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst this may be attractive for the marketing companies it is of very little help to the consumer .
2 ‘ A copy of the letter is of very little use to our scientific experts . ’
3 Robert Sharpe , for example , quotes from a major review by the toxicologists Zbinden and Flury-Roversi : ‘ For the recognition of the symptomatology of acute poisoning in man , and for the determination of the human lethal dose , the LD50 is of very little value ’ ( 1989 : 104 ) .
4 ‘ Believe me , Alice , it is of very little value , ’ Félix interrupted her .
5 But her evidence by itself is of very little value .
6 It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking .
7 For a philosopher , whether an idea is logical or illogical is very important , but for an historian of ideas this concern is of relatively little significance .
8 For example , whilst advertising is very important in reaching out to consumer markets , it is of relatively little significance to industrial markets , where personal selling is the most popular method .
9 Like ‘ mere ’ compatibility , ‘ mere ’ incompatibility is of relatively little interest : the fact that affix and volcano are incompatibles is not specially informative .
10 It has been argued that death-feigning in natural circumstances is of comparatively little use and far too risky to become a major defence strategy .
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