Sentence examples for retains a small from inspiring English sources

Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.

It is predominantly conservative, has an overlarge business class component of corporate trippers and sponsors and a radical cosmopolitan wing of old lefties, but retains a small rump of unreformed xenophobes.

David Cameron, who became prime minister at the age of 43 by deploying the charmer qualities of an Etonian, today showed that he retains a small element of the arrogant elitist.

This week, the French government said it fully supported the decision of Total (in which it retains a small shareholding) to sign a $2 billion contract, together with Russia's Gazprom and Malaysia's Petronas, to develop Iranian gas reserves.

Nor has NATO left Bosnia completely; it retains a small force under an American general, and it even shares a headquarters building and facilities with EUFOR.Even so, many Bosnian Muslims worry that the change from NATO to the EU could prove all too real if a fresh confrontation were once again to build.

Unix retains a small but dwindling advantage in the very largest R/3 installations.

While the population has since more than doubled, the place retains a small-town intimacy.

And even with an influx of people that have come from the outside, it still retains a small-town existence.

Van Nest has its gritty patches, but it retains a small-town feel somewhat removed from the rest of the city.

However for N = 1000, the two methods have comparable spreads, while the Fortet method retains a smaller bias, see Table 3.

He retained a small apartment on the estate.