Example sentences of "small [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the smallest type of businesses yeah . |
| 2 | Across a range of questions , the pattern was consistent : the first set contained the largest proportion of students who became less honest ; next came the second set ; honourably in the rear were the astronomers , with the smallest proportion of students who became less honest . |
| 3 | These satisfy unc Formally , unc is the smallest triple of relations satisfying ( 1–14 ) . |
| 4 | This group contained the smallest number of cases , ( 19 ) and the excess was based on eight patients only . |
| 5 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 6 | Some of the most satisfied women were actually those with the smallest number of aids and amenities . |
| 7 | In the neighbourhood of a given probe , X , the most distant neighbour can be defined either as that probe whose own neighbourhood shares the smallest number of probes with X , or/and as that probe with the smallest number of clones connecting it with X . |
| 8 | The Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of the plague account for the smallest number of desertions , despite all the local traditions . |
| 9 | The quota is the smallest number of votes the candidate has to get in order to be sure of getting a seat . |
| 10 | The quota is the smallest number of votes to allow five candidates to be elected and is just big enough to prevent the election of more than five . |
| 11 | Votes are successively transferred from candidates who have a surplus of votes over and above the quota and from candidates excluded as having the smallest number of votes in the relevant count . |
| 12 | It 's simply that six legs is the smallest number of legs you can have such that you can take exactly half of them off the ground and not fall over . |
| 13 | Pensioners face a rise of only one pound a week from next April , the smallest increase for years . |
| 14 | For the first time in 42 years , the seven biggest companies reported a smaller rise in assets in the financial year to March 31st than in the year before , as uncompetitive savings policies matured and were not renewed . |
| 15 | A slightly smaller entry of bullocks sold well to a large attendance of buyers , with lightweight bullocks peaking at 139.33 for a 300kg Charolais at £418 going to J McAnallen , Armagh . |
| 16 | So it will be a smaller figure in terms of the specific grants in ninety five , six . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll check out the smaller break for starters . |
| 18 | Such restraining views are typical of many that are fully justified by the emphasis upon process studies that characterized the 1960s and 1970s and led to smaller investment of resources in historical studies and to the fear that process studies will not profitably link back with chronological ones — in fact there are many indications that such links are happening again including the way in which physical geographers who have been mainly concerned with processes and modelling are moving towards evolution . |
| 19 | It differs from boiling in that the steam produced cooks the food resulting in a smaller loss of minerals and nutrients , however as steaming takes longer there is a corresponding reduction in the level of vitamin C. |
| 20 | Their biomass totals 22.9 kg per ha , 73% of arboreal mammal biomass on Barro Colorado Island and they crop 38 kg leaves per ha per annum ( 40–60% of their diet ) , whereas the howlers take 52.8 kg , reflecting their higher metabolic rates and less ruminant-like digestion : they are therefore less efficient , even though at a lower density and biomass and with a smaller percentage of leaves in their diet . |
| 21 | Whereas 37 per cent of couples and 38 per cent of non-married men had an employer 's pension , only 7 per cent of non-married women had one , including an even smaller percentage of widows . |
| 22 | Similarly , although a smaller percentage of cases were reported from places some distance from a court , all regions included such localities . |
| 23 | A much smaller percentage of pupils now leaves school without any qualifications . |
| 24 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 25 | The purpose of this project , funded by the ESRC under their ‘ Open Door ’ scheme is to investigate women 's employment in the book publishing industry , an industry in which it is estimated between 50 and 70% of the workforce are female and yet a much smaller proportion of women are employed in senior decision making roles . |
| 26 | Compared with sector KW14.8 covering the east part of the town , a smaller proportion of residents in sector KW14.7 , which covers the west part worked in the construction industry in the pre-oil era ( table VII ) . |
| 27 | Successful farming in DRAs demands very high levels of skill but an even smaller proportion of farmers in such areas appear to have received any formal training ; opportunities to receive it are considerably less than in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 28 | The group least represented in proportion to its population , Sinhalese Buddhists , accounted for an even smaller proportion of sergeants than they did of the force as a whole . |
| 29 | A significantly smaller proportion of patients with colonic disease survived compared with those with Crohn 's disease of the terminal ileum or mixed sites ( χ 2 2 1 =9 , p<0.01 and χ 2 2 1 = 4.7 , p<0.05 respectively ) . |
| 30 | At Ruskington the inadequacies of the data make it difficult to draw firm conclusions , although there appears to be a smaller proportion of graves with amber than at Sleaford . |