Example sentences of "by little " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |
| 2 | It is not immediately apparent which house this might have been ; however , the six properties are separated by little more than a hundred yards . |
| 3 | Although she was supported by little more than a third of the electorate ( or 40% or so of those voting ) , there seemed no prospect of ousting her from office . |
| 4 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |
| 5 | They produce most satisfactory results , are relatively inexpensive , and can be located on the basic carrier systems shown by little more than a ‘ twinstick ’ mounting pad . |
| 6 | Most peace activists remained united by their continuing opposition to rearmament , if by little else . |
| 7 | To many scholars of the early Anglo-Saxon period the study of artefacts with a view to placing them into dated sequences is archaeology and is accompanied by little or no questioning of the basis of the method . |
| 8 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 9 | Norfolk 's and Rent 's adherence to Lancaster was motivated by little more than expediency , and when it looked as though he was not going to win after all they defected to Mortimer . |
| 10 | Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again . |
| 11 | The authoritarian family , on the other hand , is characterized by unequal inheritance and unbroken patrimony to just one son , by only the married heir cohabiting with his parents , and by little or no marriage between the children of two brothers . |
| 12 | However , this reason was offered by little more than a third of all temporary workers . |
| 13 | Between 1935 and 1939 , the last four years of Nizan 's membership of the PCF , his thoughts were dominated by little else . |
| 14 | How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished . |
| 15 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |