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Example sentences for "comparatively little"

  • But perhaps it is the source to them of much coveted sympathy, without which they might find themselves of comparatively little importance in the world.

  • The fountain of beauty must be in the heart; more than in the eye, and if art do not tend to produce beautiful life and noble practice, it will be of comparatively little avail.

  • Trusting in the help of others is of comparatively little use.

  • Comparatively little attention is given to coffee cultivation in Bolivia.

  • Comparatively little fertilizing is done on plantations established on virgin soil until the trees begin to bear, which occurs when they are about three years of age.

  • Comparatively little of this possible acreage has been put to use.

  • But even in Mashonaland, and in Matabililand still more, the herbaceous plants make, at least in the dry season, comparatively little show.

  • Comparatively little is found in alluvial deposits, which in California and Australia and the Ural mountains have often been more important than the quartz-reefs.

  • Here, therefore, is another field of policy, important in North America and Australia, which has given rise to comparatively little controversy in South Africa.

  • The death of a wife or daughter is deemed of comparatively little consequence.

  • But terms of endearment are few, while on the mythological side, comparatively little is made of him.

  • In the inscriptions of the old Babylonian rulers, comparatively little of the influence of the Babylonian theologians is to be detected.

  • Fossil plants are almost proverbially uncertain with reference to their accurate determination, and have been regarded as of comparatively little utility in the decision of general questions of palæontology.

  • For the first thirty-six to forty-eight hours there is comparatively little suffering, but at the end of that time the parts become exceedingly painful.

  • When, on the contrary, the upper part of the saphena and its valves are intact, and only the more distal veins are involved, the pressure is not so high and there is comparatively little suffering.

  • Up to this time the bugs do comparatively little damage.

  • In such circumstances I believe there would be comparatively little loss of nitrogen.

  • Now and then we meet a chance wayfarer and occasionally a sleepy-looking carter with his team, but the road is comparatively little frequented, and we almost wonder that with the limited traffic it does not become grass-grown.

  • Of modern furniture there is comparatively little, almost everything the house contains being of an age gone by, and in keeping with its ancient character.

  • The central range here approaches much nearer to the sea, and hence, with few exceptions, the rivers that flow from it have short courses and are of comparatively little importance.

  • Ambriz ivory was at one time much esteemed, but there is comparatively little now.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    between themselves; comparatively early; comparatively easy; comparatively large; comparatively late; comparatively little; comparatively modern; comparatively rare; comparatively shallow; comparatively short; comparatively simple; comparatively small; curly hair; former chapter; general form; good repute; home range; hot iron; mixing bowl; only meant; possessive case; raised from; runoff election; tiger among; took care; two equal horizontal bands