Примери за nibbled

• They declined, however, to eat pupae of any species, though they nibbled at them occasionally.

• It nibbled at the boundaries of what respectability might want to construct as private.

• They have simply nibbled at the fringes of the problem instead of tackling it head on.

• The only result has been that one industrialist "nibbled" but went away and there is no prospective development there at all.

• Those who are concerned with women workers know in how many ingenious ways wages are nibbled at, and this provision would make that illegal.

• The local authority ought not to have its powers nibbled into by this or any other body.

• I have had my hair nibbled in front.

• Here, again, we are faced with a problem at which, in my view, we have hitherto rather nibbled.

• It is true that only the margins have been nibbled so far, but future trends are in the wrong direction.

• It is very difficult to pin it down precisely, but the quota system is being nibbled away at the edges by some fishermen.

• Already we see the limits being nibbled away.

• This has happened partly because we have nibbled at the edges of the problem.

• They have missed an opportunity and have nibbled at this question instead of attacking it with some sort of courage.

• Yet, without eternal vigilance freedom may be nibbled away.

• It has been nibbled into in a number of ways.