Example sentences of "little [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Cut a little smaller than the area of the runner , and sandwich the netting between floor and carpet . |
| 3 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 4 | He had been knocked unconscious on so many occasions that the process of revival had become for him little more than the formality of asking three simple questions as soon as his senses could be trusted to provide reliable answers . |
| 5 | We have seen how the interaction of environment and genes has had a feedback effect , and how the fossils of primitive horses show they were little more than the size of large dogs . |
| 6 | For roughly £2 million ( little more than the cost of one Falkland islander ) the British government can preserve both Henderson , Pitcairn and its own reputation for colonial fair play . |
| 7 | Eighty billion dollars was a little more than the mind of Colt could cope with . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 10 | 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 . |