Sentence examples for a small knock from inspiring English sources

It is heartening to see our trust ratings – which took a small knock during the intensity of the Savile revelations – climbing back up again.

She conceded that trust in the BBC had taken a "small knock" during the Savile scandal, but said they were now climbing back.

The interviews disclosed widespread misinterpretation of the pain drawing as many children included small injuries as scraping their knee during a break or a small knock to the arm during sports.

In the event, production guidance for 2014 has been cut by 7% (with a smaller knock-on effect in 2015), highlighting the perils of forecasting.

But seeing how this pic originated in the fertile gadget fields of China, it's more likely to be a smaller knock-off than the real deal.

Something that was a relatively small knock to the financial system led to a global crisis.

There are a few small knocks, including artifacts in bright lighting situation, but all in all, the handset looks to be a standout.

But she said customers seeking to buy the handful of bungalows, Cape Cods and older small colonials in the hamlet in the $235,000-to-$235,000-to-$235,000-to-$350,000to compete with "a long line of builders waiting to buy a small house, knock it down and build a new one that's double or triple its size".

But most see these as small knocks for a government that has political capital to spare.

If the season is early and the nest is still small, knocking the nest down time after time after time will discourage the wasps, which will eventually look elsewhere to build.

Eagles sometimes swoop down and snatch a small kid or knock an adult off balance enough to make it fall.