Example sentences of "then a small " in BNC.
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1 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
2 | Most informal of all were the periods spent at the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , the house built by the Emperor for his wife at what was then a small fishing port which she had known long before her marriage . |
3 | As it was , George Scott — who was later to captain the victorious Great Britain soccer team at the World Games for the Deaf at Amsterdam in 1928 ( see photograph on page 310 ) — but then a small schoolboy at Donaldson 's remembers : |
4 | Then a small chill ran through her as the recalled the fortune-teller 's words : ‘ I see danger from a train ’ . |
5 | If you do have to move the shell-dwellers then a small tank will for them . |
6 | The front panel layout is extremely good : single input , then a small LED which operates with the accompanying gain rotary to warn of overdriving the valve preamp stage . |
7 | Huntsville was then a small agricultural town , and the population of the state probably a lot less than one million . |
8 | You 'd have a band of ribs together to represent the furrows in a stetch ; then a small gap to show the water-furrows between the stetches . |
9 | Then a small flock of them . |
10 | It was then a small society , unendowed but relatively inexpensive for undergraduates ; its principal had virtually complete control over it , choosing both undergraduates and tutors . |
11 | Then a small spark of comfort occurred to him . |
12 | We had then a small dining-room at the top of Number 1 l , which my wife and I used when we were alone . |