1. The programme did much to popularize little-known writers.

2. The novel is built around a little-known historical event.

3. She suffers from a little-known muscle-wasting disease.

4. Not so long ago Viviana was a little-known actress playing in a provincial theatre - these days she's the toast of New York/the town.

5. This little-known British firm has now gained considerable prestige .

6. The little-known cast is unlikely to become better known.

7. These are as yet little-known but clearly very important in the economy of the plankton.

8. They pursued the little-known fact, the lost letter, the lucky fissure in language that invites one more special reading.

9. By contrast, Sir James is relatively little-known in international circles.

10. Nevertheless, these volumes have drawn together many little-known areas of social insect and spider biology in lucid accounts.

11. The little-known sea wasp, in spite of its name, is actually a jellyfish.

12. Little-known fact: there were 200, 000 single working women here before the end of the nineteenth century.

13. We discovered a little-known mountain area near Ohau, and did a walk up the Temple valley which turned out quite exciting.

14. Smith, a little-known outsider with limited political experience, came from behind to score a surprise victory.

15. Each pair, often by different photographers, famous or little-known, is readily identifiable by their matching frames.

16. Political consultants used to be little-known operatives working in dingy offices trying to elect better-known candidates.

17. With these little-known secrets, you can easily double or triple your response!

18. In marketing a sale of rather little-known works, too, there may be some explanatory text.

18. Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

19. It is a little-known fact that Laura owned a greyhound at the age of eleven.

20. Message groups are a little-known optional feature of JMS.

21. Set in southern Italy, Matera, Basilicata is a little-known glinting jewel with scenery that is more moonscape than landscape.

22. Below is some history, as well as some little-known facts about the tourney .

23. The Olympics can make sporting heroes out of previously little-known athletes.

24. On the way we decided to visit the Catlins, a little-known forest area on the coast, near Balclutha.

25. Rippling from a hidden mountain lake it runs eastward through the Tujetschtal, a beautiful and little-known valley.

26. Prof Priede said: "These worms are members of a little-known group of animals close to the missing link in evolution between backboned and invertebrate animals.

27. Two years ago, a team of linguists plunged into the remote hill country of northeastern India to study little-known languages, many of them unwritten and in danger of falling out of use.

28. What he found when he visited Djibouti, a small, little-known country on the Horn of Africa, felt eerily familiar.

29. IT SOUNDS like the testosterone-tinged vision of an investment banker: a little-known upstart buys its most famous rival, three times its size.

30. With the hopes of a quick overthrow of the Qaddafi regime diminishing by the day and calls for international intervention mounting, a little-known anniversary is drawing near.

31. Materials science is a little-known, multidisciplinary field — physics, chemistry, biology, nanotech, and so on — where some absolutely mind-blowing advances are being made.

32. Chocolate is the richest known source of a little-known substance called theobromine, a close chemical relative of caffeine.

33. However he was a little-known insurance giants and rely on a steady stream of progressive insurance funds on the world's richest man in the world.

34. But Toyota, a company that built its reputation with meticulous attention to quality, is now facing a credibility crisis as little-known problems are surfacing with many of its models.

35. Using a little-known loophole in the law, the system is already allowed under Labour and has happened in one case where an American firm is operating a school in north London.

36. The decision to hire non-professional actors in key roles speaking in a little-known aboriginal language presented further tough hurdles.

37. Locals run a little-known homestay — where you get to learn about Tai Dam culture and history and join in village life.

38. The little-known group has previously claimed responsibility for bomb blasts in other cities.

39. To make your acceptance speech memorable, use a brief but touching or humorous anecdote—from the project you are nominated for, the people you worked with, or about some little-known fact.

40. David Seidler based his script on a little-known story from England between the wars.

41. A cross between that and maybe a little-known film we saw on Rube Goldberg and his ways.

42. The project is partly inspired by a study carried out aboard a vessel called Dayang Yihao in 2007, of the then little-known Southwest Indian Ridge.

43. The book, which comes out from Norton next week, is part memoir, part history, part cultural-studies essay and part grab bag of odd and little-known details.

44. It has pushed a little-known painting and its story to wider attention – and dragged a startling character into the light.

45. I showed you a little-known way in which you can group the objects that you work with in the Control Center in a customized manner.

46. One, introduced in May, would authorize inspectors with the city Department of Consumer Affairs to enforce a little-known state law that requires businesses to display their names in English.

47. To make his point, he turned to a little-known 1908 text by Lu Xun, arguably China's greatest writer of the 20th century, who was appropriated by the Communists.

48. Weekend All Things Considered host Guy Raz talks with Daniel Rasmussen about the little-known events of the slave rebellion of 1811.