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 .
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