well-nigh no Dicionário de Espanhol-Inglês da Oxford

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1. poco (poca cantidad, poca cosa):

le serví sopa pero comió poca
I gave her some soup but she only ate a little o she didn't eat much
sírvele poco, desayunó muy tarde
don't give him (too) much, he had a late breakfast
por poco que gane, siempre es otro sueldo
no matter how little o however little she earns o even if she doesn't earn much, it's still another salary coming in
se conforma con poco
he's easily satisfied
poco faltó para que me pegara
he nearly hit me
poco y nada saqué en limpio de lo que dijo
what he said made little or no sense to me
lo poco que gana se lo gasta en vino
he spends the little o what little he earns on wine
compra más lentejas, nos quedan muy pocas
buy some more lentils, we've hardly any left o we have very few left
es un profesor como pocos
there aren't many teachers like him
pocos pueden permitirse ese lujo
not many people can afford to do that

2. poco:

poco (refiriéndose a tiempo) lo vi hace poco
I saw him recently o not long ago
hace muy poco que lo conoce
she hasn't known him for very long
hace muy poco que lo conoce
she's only known him a little while
tardó poco en pintar la cocina
it didn't take him long to paint the kitchen
falta poco para las navidades
it's not long till Christmas
falta poco para las navidades
Christmas isn't far off
a poco de terminar el bombardeo
soon o shortly after the bombing stopped
dentro de poco sale otro tren
there'll be another train soon o shortly
poco antes de que ella se fuera
a short while o shortly before she left

4. poco en locs:

a poco Méx, ¿a poco no lees los periódicos?
don't you read the newspapers?
¡a poco no está fabuloso Acapulco!
isn't Acapulco just fantastic!
¡a poco ganaron!
don't tell me they won!
nos sacamos el gordo de la lotería — ¡a poco !
we won the big lottery prize — you didn't!
de a poco lat-amer
gradually
agrégale la leche de a poquito
add the milk gradually o a little at a time
de a poquito se lo fue comiendo
little by little o slowly she ate it all up
(en poco) en poco estuvo que nos ganaran
they came very close to beating us
(en poco) en poco estuvo que nos ganaran
they very nearly beat us
en poco estuvo que no viniéramos
we almost didn't come
tienen en poco la vida ajena
they set little value on other people's lives
me tienes bien en poco si me crees capaz de eso
you can't think very highly o much of me if you think I could do such a thing
poco a poco o Méx a poquito
gradually
poco a poco la fueron arreglando
they gradually fixed it up
poco a poco la fueron arreglando
they fixed it up little by little
poco más o menos
approximately
poco más o menos
roughly
habrán gastado unos dos millones, poco más o menos
they must have spent in the neighborhood of two million
habrán gastado unos dos millones, poco más o menos
they must have spent in the region of two million Brit
poco menos que
nearly
es poco menos que imposible
it's well-nigh o almost o very nearly impossible
le pegó una paliza que poco menos que la mata coloq
he gave her such a beating he almost o nearly killed her
poco menos que los echan a patadas coloq
they practically kicked them out
por poco
nearly
por poco nos descubren
we were nearly found out

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Defined in this way, snobbery is well-nigh universal.
www.radiotimes.com
On practical terms alone that kind of dynamic is well-nigh impossible to achieve en masse.
www.chicagotribune.com
This is well-nigh impossible to sell to public opinion.
www.independent.co.uk
But now after four decades of well-nigh unbroken denunciation, there are signs the pendulum might be swinging back the other way.
www.telegraph.co.uk
That is because there are so many factors at play, and it is well-nigh impossible to disentangle them all.
www.independent.ie
Everyone knows there is an informer in their midst but it is well-nigh impossible to identify where the leaks are coming from.
www.independent.co.uk
No, discord was the nectar whereof it supped, and here it proved to have a well-nigh bottomless stomach.
www.telegraph.co.uk
In particular, they'd resisted biopics on the grounds that it would have been well-nigh impossible to cast the central role.
www.independent.co.uk
But we keep improving it until we've well-nigh ruined it and have no idea how to stop.
news.nationalpost.com
As a teenager he worked at breaking wild horses to saddle-- which led to a teen-age career as a stunt man, stand-in, and extra in well-nigh 100 films.
en.wikipedia.org

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