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Example sentences for "small numbers"

  • During the summer again the deer come down to the coast in small numbers, taking to the water in the lagoons, or even in the sea, when the flies become troublesome.

  • Several species of small land birds also occur in small numbers, but the natives are not familiar with them and call them all "su'ksaxi[a].

  • Of its winter status in that area he follows with the statement that the "yellow-throated warbler winters regularly in small numbers, at which season it is confined to the live oak groves.

  • This warbler has been found in winter in two localities (Todos Santos and El Oro) in Baja California, and appears to be resident in small numbers.

  • The northern olive warbler is probably migratory to some extent, individuals withdrawing to the southern part of the range, but it is found in winter occasionally or in small numbers as far north as southern Arizona.

  • From this time till August 25 inclusive, I found them regularly in small numbers.

  • The bird appears to breed there only in small numbers, though it is still found on the most northerly part of the island.

  • Now they occur there indeed only in small numbers, and, it appears, not in the immediate neighbourhood of land; but there is scarcely any doubt that in former days they were common on the most northerly coasts of Norway.

  • Seals and white whales also perhaps occur here at certain seasons of the year in no small numbers.

  • In the Central Provinces they have settled in small numbers in the northern and eastern Districts.

  • This clan is found in small numbers in the Hoshangabad and Seoni Districts.

  • The Gaharwars are found in small numbers in the Central Provinces, chiefly in the Chhattisgarh Districts and Feudatory States.

  • The terrestrial fauna, consisting of some new Reptiles haunting the banks of rivers, and Birds of the genus Snipe, have certainly only reached us in small numbers.

  • Here also we note the first appearance of the Oyster, but still in small numbers.

  • Gabrielson (1944) reported that it could be seen in small numbers everywhere.

  • It is possible that Brandt's cormorant has been in the area in small numbers for a long time, either regularly or intermittently.

  • More recently, small numbers of apparently breeding fulmars have been found in the Barren Islands (L.

  • The burghers returned in confusion to the laager, followed by small numbers of the enemy.

  • But the burghers went about in small numbers--north or south, east or west--wherever they listed.

  • As mentioned above snipe spend the winters in small numbers as far north as they can find unfrozen marshes and spring holes, but their main winter resorts are in the Southern States, the West Indies, and northern South America.

  • I have taken both forms of dowitchers in Florida, where they winter regularly in small numbers.

  • In the Canaries it occurs only on passage in small numbers.

  • And the like Monuments are yet to be observed in Norway and Denmark in no small numbers.

  • In hard winters elkes a kind of wild swan are seen in no small numbers, in whom and not in common swans is remarkable that strange recurvation of the windpipe through the sternon, and the same is also obseruable in cranes.

  • That the Romanes themselves were early in no small numbers, Seventy Thousand with their associats slain by Boadicea, affords a sure account.

  • A large pheasantry is operated on the same general lines as a plant where birds are grown in small numbers.

  • In this country geese are grown in small numbers by a few persons in almost every community.

  • Flamingoes and spoon-bills frequent the shallows in small numbers.

  • Occasionally, in small numbers, they may visit the sand in afternoon.

  • This is the more remarkable inasmuch as an allied form, the Bean-Goose, was supposed in earlier days to occur in Spain, though relatively in small numbers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small numbers" 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:
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