1.   But despite favorable reviews, it started out with a small core audience and little of the buzz that network executives look for in a hit.

2.   But its backing has vastly increased from that small core to thousands of active members and hundreds of thousands of supporters.

3.   Cut the fennel bulb into quarters vertically through the root, slice off the small core wedges and discard them.

4.   Early in training camp, the first-year Bruins coach had a group of virtual no-names surrounded by a small core of veterans.

5.   He said that under his plan, a Kosovo army would have a small active core of professional soldiers and a larger component of reserves.

6.   It only took the youth of one generation, supported and encouraged by a small core of radical adults, to actively degenerate standards of personal morality into immorality.

7.   Much deeper within this shell of metallic hydrogen is believed to be a small rocky core about the size of the Earth.

8.   Not only is there apparently a small molten core, but a large layer of partly melted rock around it.

9.   Now, Ctrvtlik is at the heart of a small core of veterans expected to provide that leadership.