Sentence examples for small spate from inspiring English sources

As seems to happen in American publishing, there was one of those 20-year moments when a small spate of books appears, all with variations on a theme.

There's also a small spate of proper compositions, including the jittery title track, by Mr. Lossing, and a restful elegy by Mr. Hebert called "For A. H".

Hence, a small spate of Web sites that guide patients and families through this sensitive territory, including The Conversation Project (founded last year by Ellen Goodman, a former syndicated columnist) and the more recent Prepare (produced by Dr. Rebecca Sudore, a geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco).

THE popularity of "The Devil Wears Prada" -- both the execrable novel and the so-so movie -- spawned a small spate of what might be called assistant lit: books about monstrous bosses and the humiliations their underlings endure as the price for proximity to the powerful.

HORROR is among the most durable, if disreputable, American movie genres, and Halloween, which always generates at least a small spate of horror films, is the best time to check its vital signs, to determine whether it's really alive or just stubbornly, annoyingly undead.

Meanwhile Last.Fm was the centre of a small spate of controversy recently when it turned off a few subscriber stations that, the company said, weren't strictly DMCA compliant.

In part, that is because of the extraordinary demand during a smaller spate of earlier census hiring.

These larger waves of layoffs were preceded by a smaller spate of firings earlier this summer which saw 250 employees let go from the company's Waterloo R&D and product testing facility.

Under the Dodd-Frank regulatory overhaul, hedge funds large and small face a spate of new bureaucratic mandates that take effect in July.

And there have been a spate of small-scale attacks elsewhere, including mortar fire on the American embassy in Sana'a in March and on Italy's in April.

"There has been a spate of small-scale grenade, bomb and armed attacks in Nairobi (especially the area of Eastleigh), Mombasa, and North Eastern Province.