Example sentences of "[adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand for advice is strongest amongst actual victims of computer misuse , where it is effectively little more than a damage limitation exercise . |
| 2 | The fact that two years later the HMI Secondary Survey showed that popular fears about falling standards were largely unfounded did conspicuously little to change the prevailing attitude . |
| 3 | The daily routines of most working class wives left conspicuously little time for leisure . |
| 4 | Fry 's book contains rather little biographical information , the focus being firmly on Cézanne 's work . |
| 5 | Such a degree course would not suit everyone , but it might well be attractive to the late entrants and mature students who are increasingly common participants in higher education , particularly in the humanities , and who bring valuable experience of life and work to their study , but may have rather little formal preparation . |
| 6 | But although we may be confident that a gradient exists , and influences subsequent development , we usually have no idea what it is a gradient of , and rather little idea of how genes are actually switched on and off . |
| 7 | Theories that suppose latent inhibition to be a function of what the stimulus itself predicts have been compelled to introduce special explanations to deal with the fact of context — specificity — and , as we shall see , they have done so with rather little success . |
| 8 | Curriculum managers reading this discussion may rightly feel that this magisterial balance has rather little to offer to their own pressing concerns . |
| 9 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 10 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |
| 11 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 12 | The first is that there is rather little reason to associate the coercive pressure of a dominant or majority current of opinion or belief with democracy . |
| 13 | spoken language typically contains rather little subordination |
| 14 | In our discussion so far we have concentrated particularly on the physical context in which single utterances are embedded and we have paid rather little attention to the previous discourse co-ordinate . |
| 15 | Among transition metal hydrides the mass of the metal atom has rather little effect ; frequencies are in the range 2200–1700 cm -1 , the precise value depending on the metal and the other ligands involved . |
| 16 | It was quite possible for them to take their deferences and privileges and give rather little in return . |
| 17 | To date , however , there has been rather little evidence on the means of transmission of difficulties . |
| 18 | However , although the UK government and others have a variety of policies designed to encourage and stimulate innovation , rather little has been done to assess the effectiveness of these measures , or to consider them in a broader context of structural change and adjustment in a mature industrial economy . |
| 19 | In particular , the ‘ state of the art ’ in the collection and processing of raw data by the Soviet Central Statistical Administration is something about which rather little is known . |
| 20 | Rather little to respond to I think which does n't mean that good work has not been done . |
| 21 | By the 1970s , the " West Indian language problem " had been probed and discussed by educators and policy makers , but still rather little actual research had been done on the language of the Caribbeans . |
| 22 | Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , not a man to be seduced by charm alone , thought rather little of " Diffugere nives " , coupling it with another poem , the twelfth ode of the fourth book , and dismissing the pair alike as Frühlingslieder ( " unremarkable spring songs " ) , which Goethe , " " , ( " only remind us , like Goethe of old , " " and if time goes swiftly by , the seasons come again " " ) ( 1913 ) . |
| 23 | put it in the shop window in New York on St Patrick 's Day along with forty shades of green paperweights , the lacquered shillelaghs , and the wonderful world of deedeelee eedeelee eedeelee Irishness ; skipping dancing jolly little leprechauns in bright buckled shoes and battered hatted bow legged bright red drunken faced gombeen men with little devils in their laughing Irish eyes , mischievous gossipy white haired old women with shawls , pure white skinned colleens skipping carefree through green fields dutifully ready to return in an instant to domestic chores , strapping athletic lads with fine belts and sturdy boots ever willing to put in a fair day 's work or hit each other a clout . |
| 24 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 25 | It was such a jolly little lighthouse , white , and standing at the very end of a promontory . |
| 26 | ‘ She was a lovely , jolly little child with the most beautiful big eyes . |
| 27 | Except ‘ Three Little Birds ’ , which , although it might have sounded like just a jolly little song , was , in fact , a metaphorical indictment of the whole superpower system . |
| 28 | ‘ Jolly little tune , ’ Shufflebotham said . |
| 29 | There are destroyers behind the wings , maybe , but they do n't play a jolly little team game , it does n't work that way . |
| 30 | There was remarkably little to do in the hospital if you did n't want to read Agatha Christie or knit half-mile scarves . |