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Let it be made clear that this is a very risky business that can easily convert well placed people into paupers while a very small number becomes rich overnight
2.
It was a very small circulation magazine, but with a fancy press
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Abery’s a very small village only a couple of hundred people in all – mostly sheep farming - but there’s an interesting stone circle … quite a large one - I don’t know what the place is called here on Earth
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"That is very small for the people you've told me about
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By this time, I felt very small,
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A very small hole was cut into the canvas so Collin could see
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That house is very small; it can’t be easy for them
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I only want a very small, intimate affair – Jo and Sally, maybe, and Gary but if I have him, Claire will want to come and Mel … this small affair could become quite large if I’m not careful … and Simon might want to invite some of his cousins
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It would have to be a very high technology of very small creatures
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Little things, like the fact he used to bring his mother flowers from the fields near where they lived, and that, as a very small child, he would follow Peter everywhere
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The settlement was very small, they were immediately at the center of it
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yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor lists
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He crossed a very small bridge to the canopy of an apartment tree in a textile neighborhood
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down to the bowl and splashed a very small amount of water into it
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and suddenly felt very small
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Alan's voice got very small, “It's the same girl,” he had to admit
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This happened because the very smallest bit of the mirror had the same power which the whole mirror had possessed
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The quantity of these, however, which the labouring poor an under any necessity of consuming, is so very small, that the increase in their price does not compensate the diminution in that of so many other things
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In a country which had acquired its full complement of riches, where, in every particular branch of business, there was the greatest quantity of stock that could be employed in it, as the ordinary rate of clear profit would be very small, so the usual market rate of interest which could be afforded out of it would be so low as to render it impossible for any but the very wealthiest people to live upon the interest of their money
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will find that their annual gains bear but a very small proportion to their annual expense, even
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– a very small one, it was true, but indisputably a luxury –
22.
Oh yes the printing was very small, Oh and by the way we are the maintenance personnel! The owners had left this property to us alone for this week only
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The bounder becomes the real proprietor of the mine, and may either work it himself, or give it in lease to another, without the consent of the owner of the land, to whom, however, a very small acknowdedgment must be paid upon working it
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They were astonished to observe the rage of the Spaniards to obtain them; and had no notion that there could anywhere be a country in which many people had the disposal of so great a superfluity of food; so scanty always among themselves, that, for a very small quantity of those glittering baubles, they would willingly give as much as might maintain a whole family for many years
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This base is a very small environment here with just the three of us
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as they can be acquired with a very small quantity of labour, so they will purchase or command but a very small quantity
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But, in the course of these sixty-four years, there happened two events, which must have produced a much greater scarcity of corn than what the course of the season is would otherwise have occasioned, and which, therefore, without supposing any further reduction in the value of silver, will much more than account for this very small enhancement of price
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Portugal, however, is but a very small part of Europe, and the declension of Spain is not, perhaps, so great as is commonly imagined
29.
The same superabundance of food, of which they have the disposal, enables them to give a greater quantity of it for all those singular and rare productions which nature furnishes but in very small quantities; such as the precious metals and the precious stones, the great objects of the competition of the rich
30.
The rise, indeed, supposing there has been any, has hitherto been so very small, that after all that has been said, it may, perhaps, appear to many people uncertain, not only whether this event has actually taken place, but whether the contrary may not have taken place, or whether the value of silver may not still continue to fall in the European market
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I know that Ithaca is very small
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My example is a very small one
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But when the division of labour has once been thoroughly introduced, the produce of a man's own labour can supply but a very small part of his occasional wants
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” It could be true for very small
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The demand of idle people, therefore, for foreign goods, being the same, or very nearly the same as before, a very small part of the money which, being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is likely to be employed in purchasing those for their use
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It seems to have constituted almost the whole circulation of that country; for though the circulation of the Bank of Scotland, which had then no rival, was considerable, it seems to have made but a very small part of the whole
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That between the dealers and the consumers, on the contrary, as it is generally carried on by retail, frequently requires but very small ones, a shilling, or even a halfpenny, being often sufficient
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But anciently, during the prevalency of the feudal government, a very small portion of the produce was sufficient to replace the capital employed in cultivation
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In the ancient state, the little trade that was stirring, and the few homely and coarse manufactures that were carried on, required but very small capitals
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played with a very small one
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maybe a very small one
42.
We see, every day, the most splendid fortunes, that have been acquired in the course of a single life, by trade and manufactures, frequently from a very small capital, sometimes from no capital
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Also, there was a very small bit about a supposed
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Think: Real, but very small, living doll
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For though the quantity of precious productions for which he exchanges his whole revenue be very small, the number of workmen employed in collecting and preparing it must necessarily have been very great
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He generally contributes, however, but a very small proportion to that of each; to a very few, perhaps, not a tenth, to many not a hundredth, and to some not a thousandth, or even a ten thousandth part of their whole annual maintenance
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Each of them, however, taken singly, contributes often but a very small share to the maintenance of any individual of this greater number
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Nerissa’s voice came out very small
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But it is but a very small part of the annual produce of the land and lahour of a country, which can ever be destined for purchasing gold and silver from their neighbours
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The former of these two effects is a very small loss, the latter a very small advantage ; both too insignificant to deserve any part of the public attention
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At present they are supposed to constitute but a very small part of it
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But whatever may be the amount of this sum, the proportion which it bears to the whole mass of bank money is supposed to be very small
53.
It is but a very small part of this importation which, it can be supposed, is employed as an annual addition, either to the plate or to the coin of the kingdom
54.
That any annual addition which, it can reasonably be supposed, is made either to the plate or to the coin of the kingdom, could require but a very small annual importation of gold and silver, seems evident enough; and though we had no direct trade with Portugal, this small quantity could always, somewhere or another, be very easily got
55.
All the different states of ancient Greece possessed, each of them, but a very small territory; and when the people in anyone of them multiplied beyond what that territory could easily maintain, a part of them were sent in quest of a new habitation, in some remote and distant part of the world ; the warlike neighbours who surrounded them on all sides, rendering it difficult for any of them to enlarge very much its territory at home
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They did not consider that the value of those metals has, in all ages and nations, arisen chiefly from their scarcity, and that their scarcity has arisen from the very small quantities of them which nature has anywhere deposited in one place, from the hard and intractable substances with which she has almost everywhere surrounded those small quantities, and consequently from the labour and expense which are everywhere necessary in order to penetrate, and get at them
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The price, indeed, was very small, and instead of thirty years purchase, the ordinary price of land in the present times, it amounted to little more than the expense of the different equipments which made the first discovery, reconoitered the coast, and took a fictitious possession of the country
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A trading and manufacturing country, therefore, naturally purchases, with a small part of its manufactured produce, a great part of the rude produce of other countries; while, on the contrary, a country without trade and manufactures is generally obliged to purchase, at the expense of a great part of its rude produce, a very small part of the manufactured produce of other countries
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When the expense of fashionable dress is very great, the variety must be very small
60.
The office of judge is in itself so very honourable, that men are willing to accept of it, though accompanied with very small emoluments
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Government, it has been said, by taking the management of the turnpikes into its own hands, and by employing the soldiers, who would work for a very small addition to their pay, could keep the roads in good order, at a much less expense than it can be done by trustees, who have no other workmen to employ, but such as derive their whole subsistence from their wages
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“Doesn"t look very small to me
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Removal from an office, which can he enjoyed only for the term of three years, and of which the lawful emoluments, even during that term, are so very small, seems to be the utmost punishment to which any committee-man is liable, for any fault, except direct
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Over and above all this, the moderate capital of this company is said to be divided among a very small number of proprietors
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Back on Earth it was proved that some people, a very small minority, could detect radio signals or were even made ill by them
66.
Through the greater part of Europe, accordingly, the endowment of schools and colleges makes either no charge upon that general revenue, or but a very small one
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“He has a very small house we can rent
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By means of them, the whole body of the people was completely instructed in the use of arms ; whereas it is but a very small part of them who can ever be so instructed by the regulations of any modern militia, except, perhaps, that of Switzerland
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The parliament of England is now managed in another manner ; and a very small experiment, which the duke of Choiseul made, about twelve years ago, upon the parliament of Paris, demonstrated sufficiently that all the parliaments of France might have been managed still more easily in the same manner
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That act, at least, put in the power of certain classes of people in each parish to purchase, for a very small price, the right of electing their own pastor
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The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears, I believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an evil as a very small degree of uncertainty
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But the aggravation of the tax, which this may sometimes occasion upon a particular estate, is always so very small, that it never can discourage those improvements, nor keep down the produce of the land below what it would otherwise rise to
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The servants of the most careless private person are, perhaps, more under the eye of their master than those of the most careful prince; and a public revenue, which was paid in kind, would suffer so much from the mismanagement of the collectors, that a very small part of what was levied upon the people would ever arrive at the treasury of the prince
74.
At some point an unknown reaction called baryogenesis, violated the conservation of baryon numbers, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and antileptons - of the order of one part in 30 million
75.
It is the accumulated expense of several successive generations, laid out upon objects of great beauty and magnificence, indeed, but, in proportion to what they cost, of very small exchangeable value
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resting in the very small indentation of her waist
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Though the expense of those inferior ranks of people, therefore, taking them individually, is very small, yet the whole mass of it, taking them collectively, amounts always to by much the largest portion of the whole expense of the society ; what remains of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, for the consumption of the superior ranks, being always much less, not only in quantity, but in value
78.
To farm any considerable branch of the public revenue requires either a great capital, or a great credit; circumstances which would alone restrain the competition for such an undertaking to a very small number of people
79.
That the public revenue of Great Britain can never be completely liberated, or even that any considerable progress can ever be made towards that liberation, while the surplus of that revenue, or what is over and above defraying the annual expense of the peace establishment, is so very small, it seems altogether in vain to expect
80.
In a poor country, the consumption of the principal commodities subject to the duties of customs and excise, is very small; and in a thinly inhabited country, the opportunities of smuggling are very great
81.
The consumption of malt liquors among the inferior ranks of people in Scotland is very small ; and the excise upon malt, beer, and ale, produces less there than in England, in proportion to the numbers of the people and the rate of the duties, which upon malt is different, on account of a supposed difference of quality
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this position and governed this very small but widespread island group with class
83.
There is a small fire in the stove, a very small fire; coal is
84.
The main base was of course very small in comparison
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There was only one window and it was very small right near the top of the building, but there was nothing to stand on to even see out of the window
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Darkburst suddenly felt very small– small and frightened
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The third line of defense was the activities of the Apartheid intelligence Agency called NIS (National Intelligence Service) and not much is known about them being very small and secretive
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It was a very small world, we concluded
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It’s a very small world, and a lucky break to run into you
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I already have fallen in love with you, Will,” she told me in a very small voice, but she still didn’t look up
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It was still a big place, and airplanes are very small objects
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The front view of a plane is a very small object
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On the other side of the road and back towards the field, there was another very small clump of trees
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My platoon was fortunate enough to occupy a very small rise in the earth
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The tree was slowly turning into ash, returning into the dirt one very small piece at a time
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His father, Chief Bow-maker, had told him that when he was a very small boy, which recollection brought a small, faint tug at his heart
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I felt very small beneath her gaze, like I was shrinking into nothing
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– Yes, you told the truth the day you came to us, however, merely a very small and insignificant part of it
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the signs and steps are very small, but all work together to reach the
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In the simplest of life-forms, a very small portion of brain capacity has apparently been left open to learned reactions