31.   You can bundle them together, but McCall advises keeping them small.

32.   But how can they accuse the U.S.-based mega-corporation of arrogance when it keeps its own name almost invisibly small on the draft declaration?

33.   But the numbers have to be kept small to ensure the activities are within manageable limits and the children get the proper attention.

34.   Conflicting weather forecasts for the corn belt kept gains small.

35.   I call a mistake our attempt to think that we could do something along those lines and keep it small and gonzo and let whatever happens happen.

36.   Relying solely on selling advertising space to make money, Metro holds costs down by keeping staffs small and outsourcing high-cost operations like printing.

37.   The challenge, said Brown, is to keep families small before disease, environmental deterioration or resulting social chaos force tragic population declines.

38.   Though it was not insisting on being paid in advance, contracts were deliberately being kept small.

39.   Upon hearing that statement, Hunter said, he asked that the next negotiating session be kept small so that progress might be made.

40.   The audience was kept small in the confined ruins of the library.

v. + small >>共 21
keep 33.90%
consider 16.95%
think 15.25%
make 10.17%
cut 3.39%
believe 2.54%
deem 2.54%
have 2.54%
call 1.69%
judge 1.69%
keep + a. >>共 756
alive 10.07%
secret 7.59%
low 5.13%
open 4.09%
warm 3.76%
busy 3.37%
confidential 2.18%
happy 2.08%
afloat 2.04%
simple 1.97%
small 0.47%
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