Sentence examples for laid little from inspiring English sources

The payments will continue until the bonds mature or the government has spent a total of $40 billion on the warrants, or 48% of the face value of the defaulted debt.For some reason, the Argentine government laid little emphasis on the warrants in its roadshow to promote the restructuring.

The network now extends far into the suburbs despite the first bit of track having been laid little more than 20 years ago.

You are unlikely to encounter insect or disease problems in a backyard planting of asparagus, with one exception, the so-called asparagus beetle, which lays little black eggs on the growing spears.

He shakes down lobbyists, he bullies colleagues and, as perhaps the most powerful member on Capitol Hill, he seems to view his job not as enacting laws but as laying little bear traps for Democrats.

When I reclined my chair, he laid his little chubby hand on my arm.

The curved surfaces of stones between the ribs were probably laid with little formwork, using only mortar; brick vaults are still built this way in the Middle East.

I cut the crusts off black bread, toasted it, spread a horseradish cream on it and laid a little salmon on top.

In farming the acres, and in selling to people who drove here and picked the fruits and sweet corn themselves, the Reichardts had laid out little roads, firmed up with spalls to check erosion, between the crops.

These early minefields were laid with little documentation.

Let's talk about my life in general ― I swear ever since "Ninja Assassin" came out, I got laid a little more [laughs].

I laid one little girl down to nap on her bedroom floor, which meant the dust and dirt of the earth.