adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a little/small/tiny creature
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tiny creatures such as mice
a little/tiny bit
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The floor was covered in tiny bits of glass.
a small/tiny etc amount
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a tiny amount of dirt
a tiny minority
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Only a tiny minority of the population actually commit crimes.
a tiny number (= very small )
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Only a tiny number of these animals remain in the wild.
a tiny quantity (= very small )
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This truly great wine is only made in tiny quantities.
little tiny/tiny little spoken (= extremely small )
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a little tiny puppy
little tiny/tiny little spoken (= extremely small )
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a little tiny puppy
little/small/tiny
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He lived all his life in a small cottage by the river.
small/little/tiny
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They come from a small village in Laos.
small/tiny
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Her handwriting was so tiny I couldn’t read it without my glasses.
tiny (= very small )
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The air was filled with thousands of tiny insects.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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I was fortunate that there was a house available for me, even though it is so tiny .
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A lot of wilderness areas are so tiny .
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Would Andrew Cartboy, so tiny and sallow, become a Dynmouth Hard?
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Because they are so tiny their own few offspring grow up uncrowded, well fed-and large.
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She knew it came from far back, because she felt so tiny on the rug, looking up at huge shapes.
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She was so tiny and so frail, and her eyes saw something that was visible to no one else.
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The baby - you - was only ten days old. So tiny , so perfect, and all that dark hair!
very
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Some species are very tiny , and encrust other shells.
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Up until the early 1980s, the only people able to use personal computers were a very tiny elite.
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Although it occupies much space, it is very tiny .
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We put in at a very tiny stream that would lead to the main waterway.
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Day schooling was received by only a minority of children from the labouring classes, in some parishes a very tiny one.
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She's very tiny , even smaller than me!
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Poor circulation in the hands and feet is usually caused by a narrowing of the very tiny blood capillaries.
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Others say he needs a very tiny brain.
■ NOUN
amount
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If you dislike the aroma, you have only wasted a tiny amount of essential oil.
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A tiny amount laced in a letter can be lethal.
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You will find a tiny amount will go a long way.
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In this form of diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin or makes only a tiny amount .
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Garlic, for example, must only be used in tiny amounts or it will blister the skin.
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He takes the bottle from Julio, holds it close to his eyes and examines the tiny amount of rum remaining.
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Vitamins and minerals are only needed in tiny amounts for good health.
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A shower of debris including tiny amounts of blood from torn retinal vessels causes floaters.
baby
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After having a baby , the usual feelings are relief, joy, tiredness, and overwhelming love for the tiny baby.
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A woman holds a tiny baby .
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There is a kind of miracle about the birth of any tiny baby which makes us suspend our critical stance.
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The smaller adults give birth to tiny babies again, and so the weakness is inherited.
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Garments, blankets and shawls were knitted specially to fit the tiny babies in the Unit.
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But when I was a little tiny baby , we travelled all the time.
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She was a tiny baby called Lourdes Periera aged eighteen months.
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I'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time.
bit
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But still easy enough to get it just a tiny bit wrong.
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And maybe a tiny bit drunk?
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It made her feel strong, invincible almost, and just a tiny bit as if she had drunk too much wine.
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Which raises our opinion of Aldridge -- at least a tiny bit .
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There's something slightly unbalanced about the whole composition, as if there's a tiny bit missing somewhere.
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One thing Abdul-Rauf has done is make us all think just a tiny bit .
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A tiny bit inhaled by some one would be lethal.
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She looked healthy and young and a tiny bit awkward.
foot
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Idealising his tall, slender ladies, he dwells lovingly on tiny feet from which their champions remove dainty shoes.
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His tiny feet in their clumsy boots came down tippy-toe, pushed against the floor, and floated upward again.
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Something with hundreds of tiny feet .
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Dear Raju, how can I thank you enough for the sensitivity of your soul and of your tiny feet ?
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Everyone has tiny feet and nice squashed-up bones.
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He smiled suddenly at her tiny feet encased in shiny, high-heeled pumps.
fraction
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The cases reported to Hoffman-La Roche I believe are a tiny fraction of all reactions.
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But the passengers are only a tiny fraction of the population, basically its middle class.
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But the companies are having to point out once again the tiny fraction of land they take up on relation to the whole.
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It is good to recall that astronomers cover only a tiny fraction of the sky at any time.
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Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
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Most new radical ideas in science turn out to be incorrect; only a tiny fraction turn out to be correct.
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As you can see from Table 16.2, they account for a tiny fraction of total assets.
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In other words, Salomon carved a tiny fraction out of each financial transaction.
island
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Each time we crossed the causeway over to the tiny island of Reine, we paused and photographed.
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Sunrise engulfs the tiny island , dawn all around us.
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An animal that once ranged over thousands of miles is forced to migrate to a tiny island .
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Sepulchers face the sea, as on the mainland, but on this tiny island death seems everywhere.
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It would have filled in the lake that had always separated their tiny island from the mainland.
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The tiny island is now a National Nature Reserve, famous for seabirds and seals.
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Already the national press and media were gathering in this tiny island .
minority
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The $ 100, 000-plus cost of a Harvard or Yale undergraduate degree affects only a tiny minority .
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And how hard it is to train even this tiny minority !
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But it is only a tiny minority that is likely to move.
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For the sake of a tiny minority of possible abusers, the cyclist is being unreasonably inconvenienced.
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But, surprisingly, when individuals were asked whether they felt this about themselves only tiny minorities admitted to such a feeling.
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He was told only a tiny minority of extremists would object.
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In a tiny minority of cases mistakes have been made.
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Parts of me thought all this was nonsense, but they were in a tiny minority .
piece
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He took the tiny piece of crumpled paper from his top pocket and unfolded it.
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Every tiny piece of business is something it wants, as well it should for the sake of its stockholders.
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Others were tiny pieces of polyvinyl-chloride insulated plastic covering, source identified.
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It made our hands and fingers itch, but the tiny pieces of red flesh were delicious.
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There was quite a good helping of pudding but only a tiny piece of meat.
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The Hawk is a tiny piece of the Machine.
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But last night's momentous happenings had shattered those feelings into tiny pieces .
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Jakhaila Miracle Braxton is resting her 3-pound-something body on a tiny piece of sheepskin in an incubator at Mercy Hospital.
proportion
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Burglary - where it's reckoned that a only tiny proportion are ever caught - nets £590 million.
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Nutmeg costs a tiny proportion of income, even for a poor family.
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The Third was a highbrow station, with a tiny proportion of the audience.
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Those prices concern only a tiny proportion of world output and consumption.
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They represent only a tiny proportion of the people who get housing assistance from Washington.
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In certain areas of higher education - physics and engineering, for example - they make up a tiny proportion of students.
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Since sperm only constitute a tiny proportion of the seminal fluid this is not even noticeable.
room
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It also meant that the boys could see in and witness the general untidiness of his tiny room .
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If you have the urge to burst into tears-do it in the privacy of a tiny room in some mountain retreat somewhere.
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It was a tiny room , shaped rather like a ridge tent.
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In the tiny room he took a seat among old ladies in a row of folding chairs.
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Hodgesaargh the falconer was getting ready in the tiny room next door when he felt the change in the air.
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The tiny room was jammed with bookcases, papers, posters, an aquarium and a computer.
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But it was horrible being in one tiny room .
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A metal cage encased the weight-lifting area, which consisted of two tiny rooms .
town
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Oh yeah, I think it's a little tiny town somewhere up towards the Territory.
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In those moments he tells audiences about his hardscrabble, Depression-era childhood in the tiny town of Russell, Kan.
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Police recently uncovered a ring that was selling crack through two girls living in the tiny town of Downs, population 620.
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John is the product of a tiny town in Nor h Carolina.
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Torrington, a tiny town , became a focus of Britain.
village
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San Mamete is a tiny village nestling prettily amidst unspoilt countryside - between lush foothills and the glistening lake.
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It is their little tribe, their tiny village .
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Miri Ismailov's family in the tiny village of Tatoni are convinced that they know what it is.
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The plane was taking the family to the tiny village of Wainwright, 90 miles southwest of Barrow.
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Once a week or so accordion music sounds will make feet itch under a canopy of stars in the tiny village square.
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We stopped that night in a tiny village in the desert.
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Passing through a tiny village called Babylon, the buildings are shabby and unkempt.
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It twisted through a dozen towns and tiny villages .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the patter of tiny feet
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Are we going to hear the patter of tiny feet?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A tiny old lady answered the door.
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a tiny village in the mountains
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Have you seen Vic's apartment? It's tiny .
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I've made one or two tiny alterations, but otherwise the house is the same as when I bought it.
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Inflation increased a tiny 0.2% in November.
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Luke put out his hand and touched the tiny fingers of his baby daughter.
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Millions of people buy lottery tickets, but only a tiny majority ever win anything.
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Only a tiny fraction of our profit comes from book sales.
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She's tiny , but she belts out these old blues songs like you wouldn't believe.
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She was holding a tiny little baby in her arms.
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The box was full of tiny little blue and white beads.
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The proportion of babies that suffer from the disease is tiny .
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There's been a tiny decrease in the number of people out of work.
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They look so funny together. She's really tiny and her husband's about six foot five.
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You only need to use a tiny amount of salt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tiny amount laced in a letter can be lethal.
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He noticed that when she saw him, a tiny sparkle came into her eyes and her lips trembled a little.
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Rory sucked at the tiny wound and spat, trying to remove any dirt.
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She gripped hard with her knees and tried to roll with the tiny plodding hooves.
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She looked again at the tiny hut.
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The smallest goat went over the bridge first, and his hooves made a tiny trip-trap sound.
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These tiny havens are where the wildlife you see in your neighborhood retreat.