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Example sentences for "small measure"

  • In no small measure this is due to their fear of law, for in Hungary every debt is collectible, and not even the homestead is exempt from the executioner.

  • To the disordered country, however, his strong rule brought no small measure of benefit, especially in respect to economic conditions.

  • It was due in no small measure to this circumstance that the Italian prose-romances are devoid of charm.

  • Yet the opinion may be hazarded that the cultivation of Italian as a literary language was due in no small measure to the forethought and deliberate intention of an Emperor, who preferred his southern to his northern provinces.

  • This parade of historic seriousness, observed by the subsequent romantic poets, contributed in no small measure to the irony at which they aimed.

  • These results are in no small measure due to the zeal and devotion of the governing body and staff of the I.

  • Had formerly the signification of small measure of wine.

  • Through the instrumentality, in no small measure, of the man whose memory we now honor, the Government established by our fathers, untouched by the finger of Time, has descended to us.

  • In general, he is a personage whose attentions to me have brought me no small measure of prestige.

  • Slipping," an inherent difficulty due to greasy rails, had to be reckoned with, and was in no small measure counteracted by the addition of a central driving chain, coupling rear and front axles through the medium of sprockets.

  • The evolution of American democracy into a government by public opinion, enlightened by the open discussion of political questions, was in no small measure aided by a free press.

  • The navy, as a result in no small measure of the alertness of Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Department, was ready for the trial by battle.

  • The great increase in later years was due in no small measure to the inordinate zeal for profits that seized slave traders both in Old and in New England.

  • The growth of the Buddhist church was in no small measure due to two remarkable priests, Saicho and Kukai, both of whom studied in China the profoundest doctrines of Buddhism and gained for themselves a great reputation.

  • When, therefore, in the fifth year after this event, Montalto was elected Pope, men ascribed his elevation in no small measure to his conduct at the present crisis.

  • The internal changes effected in the Church by the Tridentine Council, and the external power conferred on it, were due in no small measure to Spanish influence or sanction.

  • A small measure of success will be enough to show their possibilities, their ability to revolutionize polar transport.

  • It is probable that they owed their fame in no small measure to what we reckon their defects.

  • This was due in no small measure to the fact that the Empire was the creation of this people, and that consequently they were in a sense superior to its fall.

  • The romantic poets interwove Novelle with their main theme, and the charm of the Orlando Furioso is due in no small measure to such episodes.

  • In no small measure, the rise and supremacy of our shipping is due to their wise direction and control.

  • Stout old Doctor Johnson enlarged on the sea-life--of his day--with a determination and no small measure of accuracy.

  • The practice of to-day reflects no small measure of his wisdom; in their basic principles, his charges still tincture the complex fabric of our modern Sea Codes.

  • No small measure of the success of convoy is built up in the engine-rooms of our mercantile fleets.

  • To have admitted the non-existence of either, would have been to have admitted the failure of the policy which he had recommended, and with which he was, in no small measure, personally identified.

  • It was in no small measure owing to Wade’s diplomacy, carried on mainly through the agency of Gholam Khan, Populzye, that the Kohistanees were induced to rise against the Ameer.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small measure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    should slay; small aperture; small arches; small bottle; small bunch; small cottage; small deposits; small diameter; small dimensions; small door; small dose; small evergreen; small flat; small fruits; small islands; small line; small picture; small piece; small river; small ship; small stream; small system; small volume; small water; small wooden; woman came