Example sentences of "as little " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here we worked our way carefully across the rock base until we reached the treacherous scree slope known as Little Hell Gate . |
| 2 | For if a garage habitually does half the service its costs are very much lower than if it has done the full service ; and since it can charge the full price , because of the ignorance of the consumer , its pro fits are maximised when it does as little of the service as it can get away with . |
| 3 | To the charge that the enormous number of local agreements can be cited as evidence of national agreements acting as little more than guidelines , the answer is given that local agreements acted as a form of pace-setting for subsequent national agreements , and that this transfer mechanism can be incorporated into wage-determination models [ Prest and Coppock , 1978 ] . |
| 4 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) in their study of middle-class families , found that about 15 per cent of parent-child relationships were ‘ bad ’ ( as perceived by the child and measured by items such as little or no contact , clear dislike from one party to the other ) and about one third of those examples of ‘ bad ’ relationships concerned mothers and daughters . |
| 5 | Perhaps we should conduct annual examinations from an early age to be sure that we do as little of this sort of damage as possible ? |
| 6 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |