Example sentences of "had been [adv] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 2 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 3 | And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months . |
| 4 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 5 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 6 | In that year 135,000 houses were improved with the help of government grants : in 1955 there had been too little improvement to record in official statistics . |
| 7 | From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth there had been relatively little change in the age-distribution of the population . |
| 8 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |