1.  A beautiful Philippino nurse with a warm smile slid out of - as we slid into - a small office.

2.  A big company in a complex business pays its executives more than a small company in a simple business.

3.  A big oblong for the managing director, six medium ones for the directors, a dozen small ones for the salesmen.

4.  A bonfire blazed inside a small circle of stones.

5.  A breeze, a small thing, had slid in from open water.

6.  A broken-down wall at the back enclosed a small, dusty graveyard, with a scattering of dingy-looking graves.

7.  A car has driven off the small bridge and is slowly sinking in the river.

8.  A cheaper alternative is to take your own small rucksack.

9.  A cheerful, freckled young woman showed me to a small seedy room and I began to unpack.

10.  A cinema screen fills the small stage of the Cottesloe, framed by steel scaffolding and lit with red beacons.