| It is a cynical look at small-time academia, and it was really completely beneath the station of someone like Qian to have written it. |
| After an uninspiring university life he worked as a small-time suburban solicitor who lived with his mother until he was thirty-two. |
| Back in the day, Great Britain used to make and unmake small-time countries like Greece with one hand tied behind its back. |
| The book was to show how corporations and small-time bureaucrats conspire to sell out the people they purport to represent. |
| A clutch of kings, small-time rulers and chieftains invaded your home, dazzling garments and heavy jewellery in tow. |
| The boys are suitably impressed, and when Sanjay asks them to work for him, turning their small-time racket into a bigger operation, they agree. |
