Little Britain star David Walliams has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for a second year running.
He admitted he was initially apprehensive about working with the Little Britain co-creator.
And that tonal shift is even more pronounced in Little Britain USA, an upcoming sketch comedy series adapted from Britain.
More recently it has become the accent of choice for comedy characters like Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and the villagers in comedy film Hot Fuzz.
But the rankings show little change in Britain's performance over the past decade, according to Mr Hood.
So far that has been little use in Britain, where legal battles have long delayed the auction of 4G frequencies.
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There is little support for Britain being treated as a special case.
Although little seen in Britain and still under-represented in America, Mr Wilson's theatre and opera productions are well-known in French- and German-speaking countries.
The new tax will do little to reduce Britain's budget deficit.
Some English judges have been worrying privately about the potential for abuse, and foreign litigants in future may face tougher scrutiny, particularly in actions against publishers with little presence in Britain.
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Devolving these functions, in which Tory rule has been most irksome to the Scots, to an Edinburgh assembly should do little to disturb Britain's internal common market in goods and services.
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Certainly, there is little evidence that Britain's obsession with performance assessment, which pre-dated the Labour government of the past eight years, has done much for its public services compared with other countries.
"Britain had little or no rickets in the 1950s because of supplementation, " he said.
In Britain, little more than half of the shares in the biggest 350 companies are voted.
These days the politics of Christianity arouse little general interest in Britain.
Historically, the North Sea's bounty has left Britain with little need to store gas, since shortages could be dealt with by simply pumping faster.
To begin with, the private system in Britain does little work at either end of the medical spectrum where most patients confront the system.
They say a radical overhaul of the commission system in Britain makes little sense when America, the world's largest equity market, will continue with today's arrangements, soft commissions and all. (Softing is more generous and more widely used in America than in Britain.) To have a different commission system from international peers would put British fund managers at a disadvantage, or so say London money-men.
He said little about Afghanistan, where Britain is likely to remain for years to come.
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It will make uncomfortable reading for Mr Kagame's backers too, such as America and Britain, but little will change.
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Middleton's well-taken second-half goal was little more than consolation for Britain and Ribas' late goal set the seal on a dominant Spanish performance.
But this is perhaps what Bieito is seeking in his portrayal of a society whose morals have little relevance to Wales or Britain in 2002.
As the biggest box-office draw in Britain he saw little need to try to break into the US market, though, contributing to the fact that he was never given a world title shot.
"As a nation, Britain is spending too little on health today, " he told conference.
Britain has become a little more energy efficient, year by year, but there's plenty of scope to push that further.
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The assembly will not even be able to make laws on the Welsh language, a matter of little interest to anybody else in Britain.
Attempts to encourage renewable energy have had so little effect that its contribution to Britain's electricity supply increased from 1% in 1995 to only 1.3% in 2005.
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Traditionally the United States and Australia have benefited most from the idea that they are meritocracies that allow anyone who reaches their shores a fair shake, but now Britain can come a little closer to that ideal.
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