Sentence examples for were small in from inspiring English sources

My, they were small in those days.

By military standards, the exercises were small in scale.

Differences were small in other areas as well.

Both fleets were small in numbers and size, but speedy.

Most attempts to compete with Poetry were small in circulation and great in pretension.

The numbers involved were small in comparison to the vast demonstrations of the Arab spring.

Many of the steps the city took were small in scale, like improving the sidewalks, facades, streets and lighting.

The fastest growth has been among minorities who in 2006 were small in number, with the proportion of Slovakians rising by 977% and Lithuanians by 582%.

Today's announcements were small in scale and not unexpected, but they nonetheless signal a renewed sense of urgency in dealing with the nation's battered financial institutions.

But Mr. Mills said yesterday that the problems were small in light of the enormous number of tests given each year and in relation to their value.

The doses the boys received were small in comparison to those given other unsuspecting people -- the hospital patients injected with plutonium, for instance.