Example sentences of "[adj] more than a [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little while ago , not much more than a few days ago , I was a child who went about in a world of colours , of hard and tangible forms . |
| 2 | Benn , the WBC title-holder , countered : little more than a few inches from his hated foe 's nose , returned the observation in kind . |
| 3 | With little more than a few snorts and grunts , the lumbering animals were coaxed down the ramp . |
| 4 | Most of the 400,000 people who turned out to watch saw little more than a few sparks over the Scheldt . |
| 5 | At these meetings , the great issues of the day are discussed , sometimes for little more than a few minutes , on other occasions the questions and answers can take an hour . |
| 6 | So , it might be asked , why is it important to examine in detail what , after all , merits little more than a few paragraphs in conventional histories of education ? |
| 7 | The theme for the ITV series ‘ Van Der Valk ’ , called Eye Level , which got to number one more than a few years ago , was from a production library disc . |