Example sentences of "little [adj -er] than [art] [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 | Make the loop just a little bigger than the outline of the web , place it behind the web , and then bring it towards you slowly so that the main radial threads all touch the wire at the same time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cut a little smaller than the area of the runner , and sandwich the netting between floor and carpet . |
| 5 | The process is one of iteration with a submatrix of p vectors , where p is a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought , and involves the solution at each step of an eigenproblem of order p only . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 7 | And my hair was gingery , more or less the colour of the map you know , or a little darker than the colour of the map . |