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Example sentences for "small group"

  • In studying, therefore, such an apparently simple question as the effect of an act of parliament on wages in a small group of trades we want a general theory which we can use as a kind of index of the factors we have to consider.

  • On the Briochov Islands at the head of the Yenisei estuary Nordenskiold found a small group of houses which formed a summer fishing post in 1875, but which was deserted by the end of August.

  • Disillusionment in the 'eighties was mainly confined to a small group of Western-educated Indians who had hoped for better things but did not despair of bringing constitutional methods of agitation to bear upon British public opinion.

  • The transition seems to be partially effected by a small group of vases which have been styled “Italian Megarian bowls” or “Vases of Popilius,” after the potter C.

  • It may be convenient to speak here of a small group of monuments in terracotta which illustrate in an interesting manner the achievements of Etruscan painting in the archaic period.

  • It consists of a small group of bowls and dishes with a dull yellow slip covered with veins of a red colour, producing a variegated effect.

  • The opponents of commission government maintain, on the other hand, that the plan is undemocratic and oligarchical because it centralizes great power in the hands of a small group.

  • Two thirds of the developed water power in this country is controlled by a small group of power interests.

  • Where the open union principle is adopted, Professor Taussig points out, the closed shop is no longer a monopolistic device to shut out competition and raise wages for a small group.

  • Tusk Shells= are a small group of burrowing marine forms, in which the body is covered by a long, curved shell resembling a tusk in shape.

  • A small group of islands, Bonia, six hundred miles southeast of Tokio, also belongs to Japan.

  • One such is the preceptorial system at Princeton and elsewhere, under which the preceptors personally supervise the reading and study of a small group of students and can therefore advise them from personal knowledge of their capacity.

  • But inasmuch as, in most institutions, the freshman year is still withheld from this free elective plan by the requirement of a small group of general subjects, economics is first open to students in the sophomore year.

  • It is fair to say, however, that such interest has been confined to a small group of the population, now fast disappearing.

  • There is "a small group at a high degree.

  • Of course have it, even though it be for a small group only, and very simple as to equipment.

  • A small group of girls wishing to build their own camp could make two or three lean-tos, using trees five or six inches in diameter, saplings, boughs and vines, the latter for binding the thatch roof to the beams.

  • Whether it is made to accommodate a small group or an army, all who gather in it must have certain dominant needs provided for.

  • Since a small group of thoughts is more easily grasped than a large one, paragraphs in journalistic writing are usually considerably shorter than those of ordinary English prose.

  • A short title consisting of a small group of words yields its meaning at a glance.

  • The project as now formulated is to establish for immediate use a small group of public kitchens having one central depot.

  • The term "constitution" is usually applied to an attempt to embody in a single authoritative document, or a small group of documents, the fundamental political institutions of a state.

  • Instead, therefore, of being a weapon that could be used only in cases of exceptional obstruction by a small group, it became a process applicable at any time to limit debate by the minority.

  • The evolution of democratically regulated States, as distinct from those ordered in the interests of a small group, or of a special class, is the social counterpart of the development of a comprehensive and common good.

  • But to pay a man or a small group of promoters a million dollars to supply water or lighting or transportation, seems no more moral than to pay such a salary to a mayor or counsel or superintendent of schools.

  • On the 10th of March, while the Cavalry Brigade was returning from a reconnaissance, it was fired on by a small group of rebels.

  • A small group of men may have remained more faithful to Magyar traditions than Liszt and Goldmark, but the results of their efforts are not significant.

  • More faithful to native characteristics were the efforts of a small group of secondary composers.

  • During the nineteenth century a small group of men were especially instrumental in transplanting the daintiness and refinement of modern French light opera into indigenous German productions.

  • Therefore the gesture made in this critical campaign by a small group of abolitionists in nominating Gerrit Smith for president appeared utterly futile to Susan.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small group" 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:
    small amount; small area; small ball; small bits; small block; small bodies; small bulb; small flock; small group; small herd; small intestine; small islands; small knife; small lakes; small matters; small people; small picture; small plain; small river; small spring; small stock; small stone; small talk; small thing; small towns; unincorporated territory