| 词汇 | example_english_small-beer |
| 释义 | Examples of small beerThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. One argument remains for treating such compositions as smallbeer, and that is the 'romantic' subject-matter. The confusion that we are building into the system could make the little local difficulty that we had in the referendum seem smallbeer indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Professional men do not want to be troubled unnecessarily with the smallbeer or trivia of taxation matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we left office, it was well over £35 billion—and that was not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lotteries may, on the face of it, seem relatively smallbeer in comparison with other types of gambling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was chairman many years ago and am still a vice-president, though of course that is very smallbeer compared with a president. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Against that background, a saving of £300 million over six years is pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, the deterrent effect of a fine—albeit an unlimited fine—would be smallbeer to a company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Having £1.3 billion to run a worldwide set-up is smallbeer compared with the budgets of similar organisations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is very smallbeer, is it not? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such businesses, which have been devastated by foot and mouth, would consider that pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have to admit that it is all smallbeer, as they say. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, there is a precedent in this regard although it may be smallbeer compared with the 80,000 cases that we are talking about. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, that is all smallbeer compared to the big issue of entitlement spending. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be smallbeer to the champagne socialist party opposite, but it is a lot of money to those people who counted on it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are the problems which we should solve because, set against those, the right to go into a club is pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the context of the debt and the need, that is smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that is very smallbeer compared with the tremendous acceleration of prices generally. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems smallbeer compared to some funds now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This makes smallbeer indeed of the right of the gas inspector to force an entry into a house to look at a meter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps that is smallbeer to him, but it is very important to us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about smallbeer by any means. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That kind of patronage makes the proposed paid peerage very smallbeer indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The concessions on the budgetary fund last year are made to seem smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their tax affairs are often smallbeer in terms of the public sector borrowing requirement, but they are important to the pensioner concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not about smallbeer; it is about big beer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is smallbeer—a few million pounds; it is not worth the hassle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some people may not think much of this; they may regard it as very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Compared with other savage expenditure cuts, the agriculture cuts are smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reality is that£450 million is smallbeer in comparison with the risks that are being taken with other public investment in major industries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is perhaps rather smallbeer for a party that has a £16 billion hole in its public accounts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Besides that, the comments that we heard earlier about taking 120 more students into this country seem very smallbeer indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This statement is smallbeer compared to the collapse of our training system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are small business and what is big to us is smallbeer in the rest of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This issue makes our current devolution proceedings look pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mendacious though that claim may be, it is smallbeer compared with a claim by one representative of the same company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sum of £5 billion is not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is also an international match as well as being smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point is that these concessions on investment allowances will be very smallbeer at present when this is an urgent problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should have thought that it was rather smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That, in annual figures, makes our trade look very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is on the whole very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now have an opportunity of extending capital ownership on the pensions front which makes the sale of council houses smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bearing this in mind, one realises that the latest proposals are extremely smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is smallbeer—a salary of £2,000—except that this is £2,000 for life, or at least to the age of 72. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These provisions of the report are pretty smallbeer, and the report will stand to be judged by its proposals on land use. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He considered that figure to be smallbeer on a national scale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These figures make the miners' claim look smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, those measures are smallbeer compared with the need for a national will to change. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With due respect to all of them, by and large, compared with the perennial run-of-the-mill civil servants, they are smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The most notable feature is yet again massive largesse for the rich and pretty smallbeer for everyone else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would hardly expect even the most inferior brewery to produce such smallbeer after it had got into working operation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Even if we could, it would be very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that context, £10 million to protect widows is smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, those proposals can be summed up as smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not lightly dismiss this on the ground that it is only smallbeer, because £30 is a considerable sum in many households. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that these items may sound fairly smallbeer, especially at this hour of the night—indeed, they are rather smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, that is smallbeer, as they say, in comparison with what has been happening on burglary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely that is smallbeer in terms of the losses and gains seen in the recent past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They comprise a certain amount of pharmacy, sterile services and pharmacology and the rest is very smallbeer indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I conclude by saying that the structural funds resources, as was mentioned in the report, are not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A quantity of 800,000 barrels of oil a day is not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we examine what it really amounts to, we find that it is very smallbeer, quite remarkably smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That may seem smallbeer, but against a total budget of less than £6 million, it is a significant sum. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is smallbeer compared to the figures we were looking at before. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That seemed to me the smallbeer of political controversy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should not treat that as though it is smallbeer or petty feed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seemed rather smallbeer that, after all these years—27 or 28 years—we should now be catching up with injustice, but for only 5,000 people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It seems smallbeer now. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This may seem to be a comparatively minor matter and smallbeer, but it is of significance and it is an additional burden that we could well do without. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That order is not smallbeer: it is probably worth £800,000 or more to that firm in my constituency, with a prospect of follow-on orders as well. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is no smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is smallbeer compared with the amount of money which rightly must be spent on the expansion of the coal industry in the coming years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not talking about smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People might think this is "smallbeer"; but it is not so to those young students who are touring at very great inconvenience to get their experience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may be described as smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is smallbeer by anybody's standards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although we are about the fifth largest chain, the next nearest is about six or seven times the size, so we are smallbeer in all this activity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These are very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is very smallbeer compared with the overall delay with which the country had to put up while the legislation was pending and which caused some concern. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He is very smallbeer, anyhow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But in relation to total farm sales, which amounted to £1,850 million in 1966–67, exports are very smallbeer—and our share of overseas markets is declining. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, that is pretty smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is very smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is smallbeer for many families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not the language of the very small man who, as he said, drinks very smallbeer, and very little of it, who inherited a very small house. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is all smallbeer. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Smallbeer was also produced in households for consumption by children and servants at those occasions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Our duties on strong beer and ale amounted to 5/- per barrel and on smallbeer 1/4 per barrel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The whole duty amounted to four shillings per barrel on ale and one shilling per barrel on smallbeer at this period. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He made me take twelve bottles of smallbeer, acidulated with spirit of vitriol, every twenty-four hours. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Smallbeer was a low-strength beer that was consumed throughout the day by all ages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sovereign granted the students two warm meals and three liters of smallbeer per day. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Smallbeer would have been consumed daily by almost everyone, including children, in the medieval world, with higher-alcohol ales served for recreational purposes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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