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Example sentences for "comparatively small"

  • Similarly, the settlement of accounts between any two localities can be made by the shipment of comparatively small sums of money.

  • There is, thus, a partial validity in the argument as applied to a comparatively small number of farmers, who gain as landlords, not as tillers of the soil.

  • His force is comparatively small, and we do not know how large a garrison Fadil will have left there.

  • It was true that these had repulsed the force defending Dongola, but this was a comparatively small body; and it was the gunboats, and not the Egyptian troops, who had forced them to evacuate the town.

  • Out of thousands of similar letters received from former patrons, we have selected these few at random, and have to regret that we can find room only for this comparatively small number in this volume.

  • Oats are still a comparatively small crop, but they are making considerable progress.

  • It will usually happen that Mercury is situated in a distant part of its path at the moment the comet is passing, and the influence of the planet will then be comparatively small.

  • In a confined area like the Mediterranean Sea, the tides have only a comparatively small range, varying at different places from one foot to a few feet.

  • It is only during a comparatively small part of its path that those elaborate movements are accomplished which presented such an enigma to the primitive observer.

  • Fortunately, the number of these persons is comparatively small, and is believed to be daily diminishing; but the issue which they present is one which involves the supremacy and even the existence of the Constitution.

  • This absorption, however, seems to be comparatively small.

  • But this is a comparatively small number, even when compared with the human population of our little globe.

  • But the rapid fading of its light would, on the contrary, imply a body of comparatively small dimensions.

  • This should form a fine object in even a comparatively small telescope, and may be recommended to observers in the southern hemisphere.

  • The Inner Temple hall is comparatively small, but is a fine room.

  • Although the district of Ouva is at present well populated, and every hollow is taken advantage of for the cultivation of paddy, still the demand for water in proportion to the supply is comparatively small.

  • The wood is on the spot, and the rate of labor sixpence a day per man; thus it might be accomplished for a comparatively small amount.

  • It is, moreover, a confession on the part of the authorities of inability to induce or compel what must always be a comparatively small part of the community to take the proper precautions.

  • It is essentially cellular in character, and the number of cells is comparatively small.

  • The howitzer, lobbing its shell with a comparatively small charge, has the advantage of being able to hide behind a steep bit of ground, but on such a trajectory the range is short.

  • For this purpose only a comparatively small force, rapidly gathered, was available.

  • Buechner says-- Battles between ants of the same species often end with a lasting alliance, especially when the number of the workers on both sides is comparatively small.

  • Thus in the course of a few years a plantation is started at comparatively small cost, from which cane may be cut without replanting for many years to come.

  • The tree is comparatively small, seldom reaching more than 30 feet in height.

  • Thus, the range of the thermometer, from the highest elevation to the lowest depression, for the year, is very great, while in the tropics the range is comparatively small.

  • It was needed; for although the death list was comparatively small--and one can say "Thank God!

  • It was a comparatively small establishment of eighty beds, which were reserved almost entirely for officers, and personnel of our Red Cross.

  • But where hundreds were accommodated, even at as comparatively small a place as Vierzon, thousands were fed at the larger places, such as Dijon or Toul, for instance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comparatively small" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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