Example sentences of "little use [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I — I know it 's silly Aunt Emily , but I 'm — I 'm so little used to late nights that I do feel absurdly tired . |
| 2 | The first method , which started on the continent in the ninth century , was used in the papal chancery from 1088 until 1145 , and although little used in English documents nonetheless has a bearing on local ecclesiastical history for that period . |
| 3 | Although relatively little used in social research until recently , telephone interviews have been adopted by the Policy Studies Institute in a series of large-scale studies of the diffusion of microprocessor technology . |
| 4 | This is supported by Dodson 's ( 1973 ) work , although he concluded that so little water movement was needed to transport small animal bone that in fact transported assemblages are little use for palaeoecological reconstruction . |
| 5 | Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day . |