Example sentences of "little [adj] than a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 2 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 3 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 4 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 6 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 7 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 8 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 9 | Both Hammerschmidt and Dedekind , and indeed Heinrich Albert , were far surpassed in variety and creative power by a young pupil of Samuel Scheidt , Adam Krieger ( 1634–66 ) who published in his lifetime little more than a collection of fifty Arien for one to three voices with string ritornelli ( Leipzig , 1657 ) , though posthumous Neue Arien appeared in 1667 ( augmented in 1676 ) . |