He admitted he was initially apprehensive about working with the Little Britain co-creator.
But the rankings show little change in Britain's performance over the past decade, according to Mr Hood.
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.
To begin with, the private system in Britain does little work at either end of the medical spectrum where most patients confront the system.
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.
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.
So unless the government can concoct a new image that accurately reflects the best of modern Britain, its rebranding campaign will achieve little more than lining the pockets of the advertising and public-relations industry.
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But despite steady improvement in the late 20th century, the last 15 years have seen little growth in the average wheat harvest from each acre in Britain.
The new tax will do little to reduce Britain's budget deficit.
These days the politics of Christianity arouse little general interest in Britain.
But legal quibbles count for little when set against the political fact that Britain's central government has given away powers that it will never dare to take back now that devolution has been consecrated by referendums.
When it comes to negotiation, it would be hard to retreat from asking for those opt-outs, but he should not make too much of a failure to win. (There is precious little new social legislation in the pipeline, and Britain already has the right to opt out of most new judicial measures.) A reprieve for the City from the proposed financial rules would be a coup.
"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.
Yet the truth is that even Britain has so far seen little sign of faster productivity growth.
In 2003, the then-little known Banksy sneaked a painting into Tate Britain and managed to evade guards to hang it on a wall.
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.
"Outside of the political elite in Britain, this story has had little traction until now, " said Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror and an assistant editor of the Sun, a sister paper of News of The World.
With even the opposition in Britain urging a "hard-headed" approach to the EU's problems David Cameron has little room for manoeuvre.
Little Britain star David Walliams has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize for a second year running.
"There is little chance of me taking part in the rally in Great Britain, " said the French Kronos Citroen driver.
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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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The assembly will not even be able to make laws on the Welsh language, a matter of little interest to anybody else in Britain.
Lower government spending and higher taxes will do little to enliven the domestic market, and the euro area, Britain's main trading partner, is struggling.
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 clearly a cadre of young people in Britain who feel they have little or no stake in the country's future or their own.
After five days with little sign of progress in the investigation into the bombings, police in Britain yesterday announced a major breakthrough, and events seemed to happen with dizzying speed.
Elizabeth Brown, an expert in regulatory law at the University of St Thomas in Minneapolis, calculates that whereas America's banking system (measured by total assets) is only a little more than twice as big as Britain's, the government spends 60 times more on regulation than Britain does.
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.
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