Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [det] than the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | He knew she was grateful for much more than the gesture of making some tea and , instinctively , he held out his arms . |
10 | ‘ 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 . |
11 | Yet Nishikikoi themselves are a product of much more than the profit motive . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
20 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
21 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
22 | Interest in Longhorn cattle is now based on much more than the breed 's aesthetic appeal . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished . |