Example sentences of "how little " in BNC.
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| 1 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 2 | The problem of criticising the work in exhibiting societies ' shows is how little space is made available in newspapers for its coverage ; the critic has time to mention a painter or a sculptor , make a brief observation , and then passes on . |
| 3 | It is not always realised how little spinning is carried out during the test flying of a new type of glider . |
| 4 | In 1987 I spent the summer at the college on the Intermediate Command Course and found it depressing to see just how little research was being sponsored or carried out there . |
| 5 | If this seem an over-long prologue , think how little discussion there is of these things . |
| 6 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 7 | The organisation took root because the originators of the experiment were shocked at how little the victims of crimes knew about getting assistance , says Helen Reeves , director of Victim Support . |
| 8 | ‘ They do n't show it when they are hurt or tired and Gary could n't believe how little Biggs had got left . ’ |
| 9 | We shall see how much or how little of local nuances it succeeded in conveying to the top authorities . |
| 10 | This seems ironic , but letters and later statements show how little faith Eliot had in his own literary output , however confident he might sound in verse , or in the ex cathedra pronouncements of ‘ Tradition and the Individual Talent ’ . |
| 11 | We all knew how little and how vital a dime was . |
| 12 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |
| 13 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 14 | First , it is apparent how little the foreign Office and Chiefs of Staff were concerned with the problems of the British economy . |
| 15 | She had walked down through suburban Summertown , taking her time but without reluctance ; watching the tidiness of the shoppers and the smartness of the shops with something akin to smugness - how little energy and vitality they had , compared to her own shopping street , with its untidy market atmosphere permeating even the Safeways and Boots which had tried to raise their modern , never-had-it-so-good façades in challenge to the poverty and squalor , and had failed . |
| 16 | Moran began to see how little Maggie had to do in the house and that she needed money for dances and clothes now . |
| 17 | Overall , however , it has stood the test of time surprisingly well when we consider how little information on pre-capitalist systems they disposed of . |
| 18 | We toasted the couple with champagne , sampled Jean-Paul 's cake ( not bad , considering how little time he had to make it ) and were allowed to throw confetti over the happy couple in their BBC function room — or was it really Grey Gables ? |
| 19 | But what their reaction shows is just how little awareness there was among Britain 's film executives of cinema 's artistic potential , and how little discussion had gone on about what sort of cinema British producers should develop . |
| 20 | But what their reaction shows is just how little awareness there was among Britain 's film executives of cinema 's artistic potential , and how little discussion had gone on about what sort of cinema British producers should develop . |
| 21 | It shows how little the FBI really understood about film production that their proposals to improve the situation focused on increasing the quantity of production , rather than stimulating a few high-quality pictures that might promote British prestige abroad . |
| 22 | ‘ Look how little money we are getting to clean up Chernobyl ’ , was the complaint during last week 's strikes in Minsk . |
| 23 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 24 | Claudia explains how little maintenance her town garden needs . |
| 25 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |
| 26 | How little pacifist or humanitarian feeling was behind such notions is revealed by the concluding remark that ‘ it is only worth while waging war if the enemy can be destroyed with the first blow , which we did not manage . ’ |
| 27 | Numerous reports from all over Germany make clear how little the German people in the last months of the war was attuned to the heroic strains of the message preached above all by Goebbels . |
| 28 | But it is striking how little , either in internal reports or in those of the Sopade , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ figures in remarks about Hitler 's popular standing , and it seems unlikely that it formed , for most ‘ ordinary ’ Germans , the main reason for their adulation of the Führer . |
| 29 | Wilson hesitated over how little ‘ little ’ would be but , when she heard the sum , could not resist agreeing since it was so very small . |
| 30 | Turning to go back to her own house to oversee her own arrangements for departure , she realised how little good the summer had done Mrs Browning . |