4 sentences, which word to choose and other few

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Which word would you use please?1 The little/little times I've seen him I don't like him.2 This house isn't meant/made for handicaps/doesn't suit handicaps. They should retrofit it to make it more liveable for them.3 He won the most hands/most of the hands.4 Compared/in relation/considering to what she bought it for, the price she's selling it for is expensive.Could you please tell me what you think of these?- The higher the temperature gets outside the lower it gets on the termameter.- Don't worry about what I'm doing.- She's thinking about who she's going to bother next.- You pet her when she does want to be pet. Thank you

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1 The little/little times I've seen him I don't like him. Use "few."

2 This house isn't meant/made for handicaps/doesn't suit handicaps. They should retrofit it to make it more liveable for them. All are acceptable, but they have slightly different shades of meaning.

3 He won the most hands/most of the hands. Both are acceptable, but mean slightly different things. The most: He won 51% of the hands at the least, or it could mean that he won 3 of 10 hands, but no one else won more than 2 hands. Most of the: He won almost all of the hands.

4 Compared/in relation/considering to what she bought it for, the price she's selling it for is expensive. All are acceptable.

Could you please tell me what you think of these?

- The higher the temperature gets outside the lower it gets on the termameter. You need a comma between the two phrases.

- Don't worry about what I'm doing.
- She's thinking about who she's going to bother next.
- You pet her when she does want to be pet.

We use "do" for emphasis, but not like this. To add emphasis here, "only" would be best: "You pet her only when she wants to be pet."

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