Example sentences of "very [adj] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning . |
| 2 | To sum up : in a time of unprecedented expansion of world trade Britain , the nation of shopkeepers , paid itself higher wages for producing very little more , while putting up its prices much faster than its competitors . |
| 3 | As far as I remember he nodded in his own particularly grave yet twinkling way and that was that , I may have mentioned it again , in which case he said very little more than , ‘ We 've already discussed it . ’ |
| 4 | The Dutch have not left a chair , nor a stool , nor a barrel , or a bottle … undestroyed and the English troops were very little more merciful . ’ |
| 5 | It is possible to find 3 course menus for around £5 and even in lively , touristed areas such as Les Halles excellent food can be found for very little more . |
| 6 | In a very fast and expert manner the bottle would then be brought to an upright position , thus preventing very little more than the sediment from escaping . |
| 7 | In fact , because of Police and Trade Union restrictions , a motor bus running in London is allowed very little more flexibility than a trolleybus . |
| 8 | Once you have understood how the machine creates slip , tuck and knit stitches , the rest is just a progression of these , involving very little more than using the electronic pattern selection . |
| 9 | It takes very little more energy to kill , say , a sambar , the largest of the Asian deer species — a sambar stag can weigh up to 700 lb ( 320 kg ) — than a tiny muntjac or hog deer . |
| 10 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |
| 11 | Half the art of search lies in choosing a language which suffices to describe the task and an adequate solution but very little more . |
| 12 | Workstation based publishing systems like Interleaf are an industry standard but offer very little more than the Macintosh in terms of actual capabilities . |
| 13 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 14 | He conceded she was right but admitted that the frustration of having the MacQuillan case within feet of his desk and very little more information than reporters miles away had worn down his enthusiasm . |
| 15 | Very little information is given in the about the life of Fahreddin Acemi , and very little more is to be found in the other biographical sources . |
| 16 | If we use up almost all our ration of luck in our theory of how life gets started on a planet in the first place , then we are allowed to postulate very little more luck in subsequent parts of our theory , in , say , the cumulative evolution of brains and intelligence . |
| 17 | ‘ Which is very little more than he paid for it . |
| 18 | In actuality , it 's very little more complex than that , and what complexity there is adds to both facility and functionality . |
| 19 | A white spot on a yellow model gathered very little more response . |
| 20 | Also excluded from control were dwelling-houses let at a rent which included payments in respect of board , attendance or , more importantly , the use of furniture , the latter exception giving rise to " lino tenancies " ( linoleum on the floor and very little more ) , an early avoidance of rent control approved by the courts . |
| 21 | Very little more than she knew already about their relationship . |
| 22 | ‘ Grizzlies are much faster than men , and when they are frightened there are very few more dangerous creatures . ’ |
| 23 | At that time it was very much more of a family firm than it is now . |
| 24 | Their attraction to concrete reality is very much more radical . ’ |
| 25 | Great simplifications have been made in the law as to estates and interests in land , with the result that the law of property has been made very much more uniform . |
| 26 | Instead , they offer plots on planned developments and — after a deposit has been paid — build a house very much more to the new owner 's design . |
| 27 | ‘ Friends are always telling me to put my prices up , but I enjoy painting people , like bishops , who could n't necessarily afford very much more , ’ he said . |
| 28 | In connection with this it should also be remembered that all popular places , all sites actually used by the people , tend to retain the best routine of antiquity very much more than any localities or machines used by any privileged class . |
| 29 | It has long been known that skilled smallholders , owning their own plots of land , can produce very much more from an acre than large-scale farmers with labourers who can not possibly have the same dedication . |
| 30 | At 37°C/80 per cent r.h. the atmosphere contains very much more water vapour than does air at 20°C/80 per cent r.h . |