Sentence examples for proved too small for from inspiring English sources

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

But when the government decided in 1941 to proceed at full speed with the development of an atomic bomb, the Columbia laboratory proved too small for what was codenamed the Manhattan Project.

After a spell in a rented suburban house that proved too small for their growing roster of staff and equipment, they did what any self-respecting young tech-pioneers with access to a hefty bankroll would do: they rented a mansion, in the sought-after Los Altos Hills neighbourhood near Silicon Valley, and turned it into a research facility.

The venue proved too small for the pack of media, leaving reporters crowed outside and television cameras pressed against the windows - the stuff that would cause an experienced American political advance team to break into a cold sweat.

The United Reformed Church moved to its current building in 1936 after the previous chapel building proved too small for the growing congregation.

A wooden stand was built and the terracing raised to expand the capacity to around 30,000, but eventually it proved too small for the football club's needs.

The 50-year-old Panama Canal had proven too small for the supertankers of the day.

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

By 1958 the company's existing offices in Northgate, Halifax, were proving too small for the expanding company, and new offices were custom built on the Ovenden Wood site.

So four-tenths was all the Knicks had when they inbounded the ball, and it proved too small of a window for Stoudemire to catch a pass and get a shot off.

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.