Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For little more than the price of two rolls of 35mm this source of invaluable information really is worth having . |
| 2 | For little more than the price of ordinary-looking hardcover books you can own these extraordinary editions — books that are admired and collected in 131 countries around the world . |
| 3 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 4 | In fact , Manchester 's east side ( officially referred to as Tameside ) is renowned for little more than the sweat and dirt of industry . |
| 5 | There may well be a reputable graffiti artist in the area who would take on the challenge for little more than the cost of the materials ! |
| 6 | Wimpey News has teamed up with Kuoni , one of the world 's leading travel companies , to offer readers the chance of visiting one of three exotic holiday destinations for little more than the cost of a European holiday . |
| 7 | Many of them are farming for little more than the subsidies . |
| 8 | Its Military Committee , which the victors of 1945 had once hoped ( for little more than the time it takes to shake hands ) would in future enforce peace at the head of a world army , remained a jobless phantom . |
| 9 | The idea of filling the engravings with white greatly added to the legibility , but the conventional cylinder ( just over two inches in diameter ) had insufficient space for much more than the title . |
| 10 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
| 11 | As the income of the much smaller Missenden Abbey was given as £160 , compared with £262 net in 1535 , its goods may have been worth much more than the £140 assessed . |
| 12 | ‘ Rural development has often appeared to consist of little more than the creation of as many plans , programmes , projects , rural centres , and special development agencies as possible . |
| 13 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
| 14 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |
| 15 | For such a one to throw up his job , sell his house and come to Britain with little more than the proceeds of sale in his pocket , in order to start his own business from scratch in an unfamiliar environment , would seem , the height of folly . |
| 16 | At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential . |
| 17 | All these small invertebrates — flying insects trapped in webs by spiders , larvae concealed in bark picked out by woodpeckers , molluscs hidden in mud gathered by wading birds , termites licked up by anteaters — all are harvested with little more than the effort expended by those animals that sip nectar and munch pollen , or gather fruit and chew leaves . |
| 18 | This most popular show , which ran for 12 years and hooked 22 million viewers at its peak , operated under all the usual constraints of economy sit-com — restricted set , small cast , tiresome re-establishment of norm every week — but somehow extracted magic from little more than the relationship between Harry H Corbett and Wilfrid Brambles . |
| 19 | Urgent demand for which I totally agree for millions more than the money is available er , as long as all the council says this is our priority of course you can have it . |
| 20 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
| 21 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 22 | Extended development of heads and others has in the past amounted to little more than the agglomeration of courses relating to specific short-term issues . |
| 23 | Another writer has argued that , apart from the period of financial crisis in the immediate aftermath of the war , government control amounted to little more than the application of Keynesian nostrums and wartime controls rather than the application of thoroughgoing plans for the reconstruction of industry . |
| 24 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
| 25 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 26 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 27 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
| 28 | I wanted a pay rise because I found out I was way behind most of the first-team lads and barely on much more than the apprentices ' wages . |
| 29 | At day 21 , histamine had significantly increased the basal growth of MKN45G to 1.6 more than the control , p<0.002 , Mann-Whitney ) and this was significantly reversed by coadministration of cimetidine ( p<0.02 , Mann-Whitney ) . |
| 30 | They can take into account a painting 's decline in value if it has actually sold for that price , but because the decline in prices has only occurred at a dealers ' auction , they will not accept that a similar composition by the same artist would automatically be valued at much less than the price paid for it . |