Example sentences of "[adv] how little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice and her looks told him exactly how little she wanted to be away from him , and his hands tightened as he rubbed his lips lightly against hers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | FEW people realise when the travel bug bites just how little insurance cover their tickets provide . |
| 6 | However , what does seem remarkable is just how little effort was made to pursue the thieves after the theft was discovered . |
| 7 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 8 | You may be surprised at just how little water is available . |
| 9 | In a sad indication of just how little local business is being conducted by galleries specialising in British art , William Jackson has left Cork Street and moved to the basement space previously occupied by Nigel Greenwood in New Burlington Street . |
| 10 | Reminds you just how little England appears to Americans , does n't it — after all it 's only 120 miles as the crow flies … |
| 11 | This is a foundation which invites foreign scholars to Germany , and I was really surprised at just how little response there was . |
| 12 | I had brought three beautiful children into this world without realising just how little control I would have over the quality of their lives . |
| 13 | Faith , my friends , is the prospect that all our relationships can be transformed , it 's openness towards a movement of grace , a path to discover just how little life is of our own making and how much of it comes from a gift which is not our own . |
| 14 | The presence of three commas in the second line help demonstrate just how little life there is by breaking up the sentence . |
| 15 | This has focussed their attention on just how little is still known about the knowledge transfer interface between universities and industry , the mechanisms by which science impacts on technology , and the development dynamics of emerging fields of exploitable science . |
| 16 | The man was toying with him and treating him with contempt , by showing just how little he rated him as an opponent . |
| 17 | The prompt reply showed just how little Security now had to do : CCOAC translated as Churchgoers Concerned About Communism a one-off conference had in May 1968 . |
| 18 | For the first time in her life she realised just how little opposition she had ever had to face — in anything . |
| 19 | ‘ So you 're a self-made man ? ’ she said abruptly , suddenly realising just how little she knew about him . |
| 20 | It came to her now just how little she knew about him — much less than he knew about her life , which was to a great extent an open book , despite his determination to believe she had a dark side . |
| 21 | Not only did her question underline how far communication had broken down between us but also how little either of us was able to meet the other 's needs . |
| 22 | She saw that look come into his eyes again — the look that told her so clearly how little she meant to him . |
| 23 | Newspaper reports , where a reporter was present at the scene , might be thought to be valuable , but unfortunately it has been shown only too often how little reliance can be placed on them . |
| 24 | It amazes me now how little of this sub-text was legible to those around me . |
| 25 | It is remarkable indeed how little understanding we have of warfare in this period ; and we shall never know in detail how medieval kings acquired and held their power unless we can find out more precisely how they recruited their armies and led them . |