Usage examples of "petite phrase" in French with translation to English

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Mary dit à Tom: « Commençons par une petite phrase et puis nous verrons bien...» Mary told Tom: "Let's begin with a short sentence, and then we'll see..."
"Trente dollars, c'est beaucoup pour cette petite pièce", pensa-t-il. "Thirty dollars is a lot for that small room," he thought.
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Il a un grand bureau dans sa petite pièce. He has a large desk in his small room.
Cette phrase ne veut rien dire. This sentence doesn't mean anything.
Ma sœur est plus petite que toi. My sister is shorter than you.
Traduisez cette phrase en anglais. Put this sentence into English.
Je crois que je devrais organiser une petite fête. I think that I should organize a little party.
Veuillez lier cette phrase à sa version espagnole. Please link this sentence to Spanish.
Je pris la petite fille par la main. I took the little girl by the hand.
Je n'arrive pas à me débarrasser de cette bon Dieu de phrase ! I can't get rid of that damned sentence!
Il était une fois, dans un petit village une petite fille qui s'appelait Petit chaperon vert. Once upon a time, there lived in a village a little girl called Little Green Hood.
Cette phrase est fausse. This sentence is false.
Tu n'es pas aussi petite que moi. You aren't as short as I am.
Quelqu'un pourrait-il mettre un commentaire sur cette phrase ? Could someone please comment on this sentence?
Cette salle est trop petite pour contenir 50 hommes. This room is too small to contain 50 men.
La phrase que vous lisez n'existe pas. The sentence you're reading doesn't exist.
Cette boîte est trop petite pour tout contenir. That box is too small to hold all these things.
Vous connaissez la phrase, "on récolte ce que l’on sème". Moi j’ai semé le vent maintenant voilà ma tempête. You know the phrase, we harvest, that which we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.
Excusez-moi, Monsieur, auriez-vous une petite pièce ? Excuse me sir, could you spare some change?
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