Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: By default, the contents of only one data file is kept in memory, in order to keep the space small.

Modifies a noun

• business: How to raise the profile of your small business Posted July 3, 2006 NB!

• amount: The study will involve eating a small amount of tomato paste in olive oil on a daily basis.

• number: During his short reign in 1936 only a relatively small number of pillar boxes were made - approx.

• group: Most of them arrived in Italy by crossing the Adriatic Sea in small groups.

• town: This growth was aided from 1836 by London's first railways which put small countryside towns within easy reach of the city.

• village: Higher Walton A small village located in the west of the boro nestling in the attractive landscape of the valley of the River Darwen.

Modifying Another Word

• relatively: The largest lowland raised bogs are relatively small on an all Ireland basis.

• too: Or else pearls r too small to be seen over a distance.

• very: Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags.

• comparatively: Although the numbers of pupils involved are comparatively small, the costs of their placements in independent schools are very high.

Infinitive complement

• fit: A prototype temperature controller was produced, small enough to fit into the handle of the seaming iron.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: During this time gear-driven shapers, drills and knee drills were also added but the number of lathes produced remained comparatively small.

• look: The lines which are longest extend to a more remote limb than the others and therefore that limb looks smaller.

• start: Starting small In the front yard of a government fisheries institution in Thailand, a lady sits selling fish seed.

• feel: Liked the line ' Feeling small, inner enemies standing tall ' , droning chords driving the melody along.

• get: The pupil gets smaller in bright conditions to let less light in and gets bigger in dark conditions to let more light in.

• grow: Those confined to the tops of mountains or below impassable barriers may face extinction as their habitat grows smaller.

Preposition: in

• size: They are green, yellow, brown or black in color, usually multiple and small in size.

• scale: Both these eruptions were similar in many senses: small in scale, and occurring about ten years after the previous event.