Example sentences of "been a small [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that the Bredcroft site might have been a small sub-Roman settlement in the period between the decline of Great Casterton and the growth of Stamford . |
| 3 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 4 | It is true that there has been a small electoral earthquake in Europe , but not many people have been hurt , and those that were thoroughly deserved it . |
| 5 | There is also a small late building on a totally different alignment ( almost east-west ) which could perhaps have been a small Christian shrine , erected to counteract pagan influence . |
| 6 | He had given up trying to explain to Willi that Therese was no longer a star , had not been a star for eighteen years , and even then had only been a small rising star . |