Sentence examples for remained a small from inspiring English sources

Founded in 1762, it long remained a small agricultural town.

Croix remained a small village until after 1870, when the textile (wool combing) industry was introduced.

Even after Illinois became a state in 1818, however, Chicago remained a small settlement.

But Giordano noted that in many European countries, golf remained a small and above all an elite sport.

It remained a small agricultural village until 1935, when Hamilton Field (later Hamilton Air Force Base; deactivated 1975) was established.

But it had remained a small group of perhaps 200 armed men until the windfall of ransom money from its recent kidnappings.

And it does nothing to dispute the commonly held notion that Chagall remained a small-town artist at heart, the proverbial fiddler on the roof, even when he was rubbing shoulders with the Parisian avant-garde.

Addicts remain a small minority of the population, and drug use remains largely hidden behind the closed doors of trailers and small metal-roofed homes.

With $100 million a year in potential sales, it would remain a small part of Herman Miller's business, but its high profile lends an important cachet.

They remain a small minority among protesters.

"But we remain a small voice".