Sentence examples for prove too small from inspiring English sources

But, he predicted, "it will ultimately prove too small".

The carriages themselves seemed too tightly confined, and surely the tunnel clearance would eventually prove too small, and my train would rock, and bang into the wall?

Although the 1920 Government of Ireland Act envisaged separate parliaments exercising jurisdiction over southern and northern Ireland, the architects of the partition anticipated that the new constitutional entity to be known as Northern Ireland would prove too small to be viable and would be rapidly absorbed into a united Ireland.

As part of a fast-changing retirement picture, many Americans leave their longtime job, but then, fearing that their Social Security benefits and nest egg will prove too small, plunge into part-time work — as a consultant, say, or a salesclerk at a big-box store.

In the end £8bn could prove too small a government top-up for the NHS.

Sybase and Informix are fighting to stay relevant and scurrying into market niches they hope will prove too small for Bill Gates' voracious appetite.

Then came the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and the Army proved too small to sustain both conflicts, growing to its current strength of 570,000.

But Ms. Grayson, like her mentor, wanted to do more than just curate, and the Greene Street space proved too small for much else.

New York Downtown Hospital was originally envisioned as the site for the facility, but when the space proved too small, Bellevue was chosen as the location, Mr. Silver said.

When his peers proved too small, Evans moved on to the "big boy" games, which sometimes devolved into trash talking and fights.

At first these new factories displaced imports; then, when the domestic market proved too small, they flogged their surplus wares on foreign markets instead.