Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] more [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | There were derisory calls of a similar kind from the crowd long before the eighth round on Thursday as the fighters went to their corners after another three minutes of little more than dancing . |
2 | Remarkably , a record of little more than mediocrity has already lifted Holyfield within one or two fights of eclipsing every man who 's ever laced on a glove in terms of financial reward . |
3 | About 70 jobs have already been created , with the potential for 80 more once demand recovers and output reaches its full 1,500-bus capacity . |
4 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
5 | The extensified fragmentation of Weimar politics and eventual decline into little more than interest politics in the face of mounting internal crisis , entirely delegitimized the State system itself , wholly discredited pluralist politics , and paved the way for a full acceptance — already by 1932 of around 13 million Germans — of a new basis of unity represented in an entirely novel political form personalized in Hitler 's ‘ charismatic ’ leadership . |