"little enquiry" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a small or minor investigation or investigation. One example of a sentence using this phrase is: "The police conducted a little enquiry into the theft, but did not find any substantial evidence."
Before your research, is it true to say that there was little enquiry into how anaesthesia worked?
Indeed, in this decade of efforts to link development, health and research world-wide, there is little enquiry into the role of scientific capacity in general [ 14].
However in these studies the involvement of stakeholders, especially service users, tended to be limited both in numbers and in scope, with relatively little enquiry into views on problem formulation or presentation.
Himmelfarb recounts in her introduction that while "rummaging among old files" after her husband's death, she discovered tattered copies of a short-lived and wholly forgotten little magazine called Enquiry: A Journal of Independent Radical Thought.
"Whilst we welcome the conviction, yet again we are dismayed that the final result of a high-profile enquiry poses little in the way of a deterrent to those who continue to flagrantly disregard our wildlife protection laws," he said.
However, the experiences of counsellors have not been the focus of previous enquiry, and little is known about how the counsellors themselves perceive and experience their work in pMTCT programmes.
It also suggests that the NCEPOD enquiry has had little impact on care outside nephrology.
In comparison with these lines of enquiry, however, relatively little attention has been paid to correspondence within the self-report instrument itself, to the relationship between the individual's EQ VAS score and his or her EQ-5D classification.
Of concern is the fact that during our enquiries we found little evidence that hundreds of startups – Red Herring claims 500 applied last year – had applied to the awards of their own volition.
There have been occasional approaches from English clubs, including United, about bringing Bale back but they never went beyond informal enquiries and met with little encouragement.
Dutifully I asked around, hoping someone might be persuaded to meet the likes of Salman Rushdie, AS Byatt and Louis de Bernières, but my enquiries were met with little more than bafflement.
