Example sentences of "only a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 2 | However , the limitation of the sound guide is equally evident : only a small number of works can be given such exceptional treatment . |
| 3 | Artists can be at a disadvantage in group exhibitions as only a small part of their activity can be seen . |
| 4 | If it is only a small job , will I need Building Regulation Approval or Planning Permission ? |
| 5 | It was possible with only a small selection of gouges to find the appropriate one to fit the circumference of the eyeball , using the gouge on both sides . |
| 6 | I was allowed only a small chamfer . |
| 7 | Only a small proportion of older people live in institutions ( residential homes , nursing homes or long-stay hospitals ) . |
| 8 | In discussing the findings the author concludes that while a number of people do have cause to complain about their medical examination , these results indicate that only a small percentage have problems . |
| 9 | Proper buffet cars are economic on only a small handful of their routes , notably Waterloo-Bournemouth . |
| 10 | Only a small minority of tenants were taking guest beers and few of them were worried about losing them , Tuppen claimed . |
| 11 | But only a small portion of their material had superconducting properties . |
| 12 | The academic study of music may be a specialist field , but music , of every kind , is widely diffused and performed ; only a small percentage of those attending concerts or recitals will have taken degrees in music . |
| 13 | Clive Thompson , chief executive of Rentokil , said the company was only a small player in the US timber preserving market and had decided to concentrate on the UK , European and Asian markets where Rentokil has large market shares . |
| 14 | Only a small proportion of this extra money should go to the claimants , he argued , in addition to normal compensation for injury and loss of earnings . |
| 15 | At move 40 , Karpov seemed to have only a small advantage . |
| 16 | She emphasised that only a small proportion of the 30 million eggs eaten daily in the UK would be affected . |
| 17 | This contrast is a familiar one in the sociology of policing and the subject of much comment , all of which argues that only a small minority of policemen and women define their work in terms of social service . |
| 18 | For deciding how to vote , however , only a small plurality preferred television and 40 per cent of voters said they found television and the press equally useful . |
| 19 | At the start only 14 per cent of our panel reported Labour stressing these issues , but the figure rose to 20 per cent in the fourth week and 32 per cent in the fifth as Labour sought to divert attention away from defence and to move on from unemployment , which directly affected only a small minority , to education and especially the National Health Service , which directly affected the vast majority of the electorate . |
| 20 | It took an enormous amount of television coverage to produce only a small change in the public agenda ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 21 | Only a small and fairly random subset of voters disagreed . |
| 22 | It proved immensely effective at communicating party campaign themes to the electorate , but in the short span of an election campaign it had only a small influence on the public 's issue-agenda . |
| 23 | Television 's failure to publicize the unemployment issue was matched by only a small decline in public concern about the issue while enormous public interest in health , education and social services preceded television 's switch towards those issues . |
| 24 | That was matched by a similarly dramatic increase in public perceptions that the party debate had now focused on defence , but by only a small increase in the public 's own concern about the issue . |
| 25 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 26 | Only a small minority of voters in our panel thought that television was biased and they were not agreed upon the direction of that bias . |
| 27 | The Conservatives , with 42.3 per cent of the vote , won 376 seats ; Labour , with 30.8 per cent , won 229 , only a small improvement on the débâcle of 1983 ; and the Alliance won a mere 22 seats , with 22.6 per cent of the vote . |
| 28 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 29 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |
| 30 | Trade unions play a part within these associations but , since their function is nearly entirely within the formal sector — which employs only a small proportion of the population — they play a relatively minor role . |