The first national survey of adult literacy courses for a generation shows that students on them still make disappointingly little progress in reading and even less in writing.

But six months later there has been disappointingly little change in the attitudes that feed such abuse.

The two Talwin he'd taken before leaving the office had had disappointingly little effect on his mood.

His statements to diplomats and religious officials over the period of 1942 through 1945 had disappointingly little effect.

This near-whimpering response to the Soviet "da" campaign shows disappointingly little confidence or capacity for decision.

Actually these were very few, and of disappointingly little value.

The Cannes jury and Peter Bradshaw were dazzled by the film's eye candy, but there is disappointingly little beyond that.

(I got disappointingly little argument when I insisted I was not essential.)

After all, nobody can deny that two years after this much-debated summit, disappointingly little progress has been made.

Last month, Conde Nast announced plans for a new headquarters in Times Square, and so far there's been disappointingly little reaction from urban historians and anthropologists.