Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] little since " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has achieved little since November besides getting to know the gadgets in the presidential motor cars . |
| 2 | It seems that the situation in the United States today has changed little since 1971 , apart from an increased awareness among the teachers in the medical schools that the long neglected subject of the sexually transmitted diseases should form a more important part of the medical curriculum . |
| 3 | Stonecutter 's Island has changed little since the British colonized Hong Kong . |
| 4 | Delft is proud of its association with the Dutch master painter Jan Vermeer and the old town centre has changed little since the 17th century with drawbridges , tree-lined canals , large churches and narrow medieval streets and the view of this quaint red-roofed town from the 100 metre high steeple of the 14th century Nieuw Kerk is worth the climb . |
| 5 | Some Japanese maintain that the way in which society operates has changed little since the 1930s . |
| 6 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 7 | However , while battles such as those of the Jarama ( February 1937 ) , Guadalajara ( March 1937 ) and Brunete ( July 1937 ) were fought bitterly and with heavy casualties on both sides , as the Civil War entered its second year the fronts around Madrid had changed little since the previous November . |
| 8 | It had changed little since then , a street where people minded their own business , principally that of supplying their own kind with meals remarkable for value and cheapness . |
| 9 | The alternative solution is that the structure of ownership had changed little since 1522 , and that most land values recorded at that date represented the profits from subletting customary holdings — mostly in small parcels since the sums involved did not generally exceed ten or twelve shillings . |
| 10 | In fact , the couple 's furnishing style had changed little since their student days . |
| 11 | Pravda 's financial difficulties had led to a brief suspension in March [ see pp. 38825 ; 38874 ] , but its pro-communist line had changed little since its reappearance following a ban in August 1991 for alleged support for the attempted coup [ see pp. 38418 ] . |
| 12 | Salisbury Plain had changed little since Blake 's day . |
| 13 | The housing problem had improved little since the 1890s , although a few local authorities , notably the LCC , had taken advantage of the legislation of 1890 and 1900 to build the first large council estates . |
| 14 | Studies are now being conducted into the habits of the maleo but so far ornithologists have added little since Wallace 's day to our knowledge of the bird . |
| 15 | The most simple and primitive in contemporary use , these looms have changed little since their inception several millennia ago ; they consist of four wooden beams which are laid out flat and secured by pegs driven into the ground . |
| 16 | However , this statistic conceals that levels of nitrogen dioxide have changed little since 1983 . |