Example sentences of "[adv] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The mills of God grind exceedingly small … ’ — even if ‘ the god of their cult ’ was disliked . |
| 2 | Anyway , in the course of these preliminary studies I succeeded in identifying certain exceedingly small but specific bodies in genes . |
| 3 | Or rather , as she then , standing tense in the emptiness felt it , she had become something exceedingly small , smaller than the jar of marmalade and more mobile , as small as a mouse , or as an electric spark , which was impelled to run very fast , invisibly fast , round and round the house , altering it in some way which was now imperative . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 5 | There are at present in Britain something like 120,000 police and although some of these are in the Fraud Squad , they represent an exceedingly small per cent of the force , and in any case , the majority of their work consists of monitoring and prosecuting white collar rather than corporate criminals . |
| 6 | Uncle Philip sighed heavily , the sigh of a man being thankful for exceedingly small mercies . |
| 7 | Transactions in land , particularly transactions in the exceedingly small , economically useless plots of land , are transactions in prestige and social position . |
| 8 | It was planned to appoint development officers whose work would cover a local area large enough to keep them occupied full time but sufficiently small to be manageable . |
| 9 | However , you must remember to choose plant material that is sufficiently small to give a clear outline , otherwise what you hoped would be an easily read message will look more like an illegible jumble . |
| 10 | Sufficiently small objects will either be entirely ablated , or be aerobraked to free-fall speeds . |
| 11 | The non-Japanese community in Japan remains sufficiently small and discrete to highlight , rather than dilute , indigenous customs and attitudes . |
| 12 | Furthermore , we will assume that the sector to which we are referring accounts for a sufficiently small part of consumer expenditure that income effects are unimportant . |
| 13 | Both decisions involve compromise , but we believe the latter approach should now be taken as it targets a sufficiently small group and does not necessitate an expensive mass screening programme . |
| 14 | It is a delightful place to stroll through , as it is sufficiently small ( with a population of under 5,000 ) for a visitor readily to come to terms with its layout . |
| 15 | Quasi-periodic oscillations may be produced for all f when b is sufficiently small . |
| 16 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 17 | However , Michell reasoned that it would be possible to have a star that was sufficiently massive and sufficiently small in size that its escape velocity would be greater than the velocity of light . |
| 18 | ‘ Local ’ is a technical term used here to express the restriction to a region sufficiently small that the gravitational field is effectively uniform . |
| 19 | If m is sufficiently small we can ignore the mutual attraction of the two masses . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , few governments believe that the social cost of monopoly is sufficiently small that it can safely be ignored . |
| 21 | The amount of detail described by the computer model may vary but the contract activities must be split into sufficiently small parts to allow realistic analysis and modelling of all the significant relationships between different parts of the works . |
| 22 | Equation ( 21.29 ) implies that , when z is sufficiently small compared with |L| , the effect of stratification is slight . |
| 23 | The answer to Question 2 is equally clearly yes , provided only that the difference between the modern eye and its immediate predecessor X is sufficiently small . |
| 24 | Carry on doing this until we find a degree of difference sufficiently small to give us a " yes " answer to Question 2 . |
| 25 | My feeling is that , provided the difference between neighbouring intermediates in our series leading to the eye is sufficiently small , the necessary mutations are almost bound to be forthcoming . |
| 26 | Assume further that the probe lengths are sufficiently small that they may be treated as points in comparison with the clones , and that the probes are all single-copy . |
| 27 | Right then , we were talking about local parishes , and in most cases a parish is sufficiently small to walk round . |
| 28 | Whatever the time dependences of the signals in a two-terminal nonlinear network , its terminal behaviour can be represented by Moreover , the relationship between sufficiently small signals and , denoted according to convention by lower-case letters i and v , is or where ( , ) is the bias operating point . |
| 29 | As with two-terminal networks , when the signals become sufficiently small , the response becomes linear and signal analysis is better conducted in terms of suitable small-signal parameters rather than graphically . |
| 30 | Choosing the input and output currents of the four-terminal network as independent variables , its behaviour can be represented by and so sufficiently small signals , , and in the network are related by Since the derivatives appearing in equations ( 10.5 ) have the dimensions of impedance , it is normal to put for easy reference . |