Sentence examples for small instance from inspiring English sources

The photo is also a small instance of a much wider phenomenon.

At one point, Bellos quotes with rightful pride a small instance of his own inventiveness.

A small instance, like having the wrong colour paint, can reinforce the notion that white is right.

Entrenched attitudes about race make the challenges its characters face still relevant (the Oscars fiasco is just one small instance).

One small instance, circa 1979: my son had been given a puzzle in number theory at school ("What is the third number which is both square and triangular?" The first is 1; the second is 36, a square and the sum of the numbers 1 to 8 .. My colleagues and I were highly irritated by being stuck on such a simple-seeming question.

There seems little evidence for this confidence: the Communard leader Rigault, to take one small instance, may be a life-affirming man of appetite, but he was as bloodthirsty as his predecessors, stopping, even as the Versaillais invaded Paris, to personally arrange the execution of a fellow-Communard — an old friend with whom he was feuding — long after it could possibly have any political point.

"Before it was just small instances … Now we've unearthed a whole pool of data".

Another example: like a lot of English people, I'm hyper aware of small instances of social embarrassment.

Would these small instances have taken on such burning significance for me if I hadn't read Fahrenheit 451?

"Until this outbreak, Ebola was a rare disease occurring in small instances and burning itself out," said Dr Ballou.

Teachers play an important role in noticing small instances of good behaviour and giving the pupil positive feedback with smiles, nods, and phrases such as "well done".