Sentence examples for a small affair of from inspiring English sources
Traditionally, the pilgrimage had been a small affair of a few thousand pilgrims over a few weeks.
It was a small affair that mixed elegance and whimsy.
Sotheby's auction, although a smaller affair (it sold 46 of its 61 works) made nearly as much on Tuesday — $227.5 million, also in the middle of its estimate of $195 million to $266 million.
The recapture of the Ramadi in late December was also a relatively small affair.
He is entering a different world to the comparatively small-scale affairs of British politics and Whitehall; he is swapping Downing Street for the White House and scandals such as "pastygate" for the bigger politics of the world's superpower.
Jet skiing on the reservoir Churchill Falls town is a small compact affair with a semicircle of identical box-like houses, a population of some 650 mainly servicing the power station, a petrol garage, and one hotel, The Midway, which has a restaurant, where Madam and Yours Truly now repose, stuffing their faces.
Charlotte Square Gardens, 0845 373 5888, edbookfest.co.uk 13-29 Aug Opened in 2001, Analogue, a small independent affair specialising in a diverse selection of art and design-related books, has moved location from Victoria Street just round the corner to Candlemaker Row.
It was a small, private affair -- no more than 50 people, most of them family members.
"It was a small, sad, affair.
"It's a small, private affair," the source says.
