1.   A patrol in the city centre was crossing a road when a small explosion occurred near a fence-post.

2.   He says that they carried weapons of a kind which fire by creating a small explosion.

3.   I kept hearing these small explosions and I wondered what could possibly be the cause.

4.   It was a very small explosion, but it reverberated loudly and quickly across Washington.

5.   There was a small explosion in the nitrogen cooling tanks.

6.   There was a small explosion and a flash from the flare as it curved into the air.

7.   A small explosion resulted which detonated a store of hand grenades, which in turn set off a number of flamethrower fuel containers.

8.   Another account blames a small explosion in the plant.

9.   Backers and opponents disagree on whether small explosions are significant militarily.

10.   A few nations, he said, fear that improper analysis of the data might confuse small explosions in the mining or construction industries with clandestine nuclear blasts.