1.   As the snow accumulates from that little boreal patch, growing inexorably year after year, gargantuan ice sheets begin to form.

2.   Extracted from a tough little patch of turf with no small effort.

3.   Leave me and the children in our little patch of civilization.

4.   My hair falls out at the slightest touch, sometimes leaving little bald patches.

5.   The hills rolled and folded into each other, hiding little patches of dead ground.

6.   ...the little vegetable patch in her backyard.

7.   The little dark patch of slightly darker darkness shrank back to merge quite convincingly with the less dark darkness and form an overall dark sort of an area.

8.   The little dark patch sank deeper into the surrounding darkness.

9.   Here it became an uncertainly illuminated little dark patch.

10.   A very little uncertainly illuminated little dark patch.