Sentence examples for had started small from inspiring English sources

'Everyone said they had been killed.' The demonstrations had started small, scattered and peaceful.

He described it as a company that had started small as the brainchild of one man and become "the quintessential American success story".

The couple, who live in Red Hook, had started small — tiny — selling a few dozen live lobsters out of the crude storefront of their modest commercial building on Van Brunt Street, where Mr. Gorham kept the woodworking shop.

I sensed this energy during my last two visits, when I repeatedly met or heard about former architects, bankers or lawyers who had started small, idiosyncratic enterprises, and I repeatedly stumbled upon new, clever projects.

La Corona, the northern camp across from the fence line, had started small: a few huts of nylon or palm thatch, accessible only by a grueling hike through the sweltering jungle.

To exclude spicules that began their formation long after the incubation had started, small completely fluorescent spicules were ignored.

Dr. David Nabarro, the organization's executive director for emergency and humanitarian action, said today that it had started small-scale efforts in Kirkuk and Mosul in the last two weeks.

Iran said it had started small-scale enrichment of uranium, ending a two-and-a-half-year voluntary suspension, but said it was willing to resume talks with Russia next week on that country's proposal to enrich a low level of Iran's uranium in Russia.

Although the program has started small, senior commanders have praised it as an exceptional success.

While the women may have started small, their responsibilities and the scope of their work increased in complexity over time.

But the five American schools have started small, with only about 300 slots among them for next year's entering classes.