Example sentences of "[prep] little [adj] than [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Enclosure turned small or fragmented holdings and commons suitable for little more than subsistence agriculture into consolidated holdings able to support the new farming and generate capital for improvement . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | This model of socialism has involved some limited changes in economic ownership , but in practice has invariably amounted to little more than state direction of predominantly privately owned economic activity , and the maintenance of some minimum standards of social provision for all . |
4 | Indeed , Professor Roskell has gone so far as to suggest that the nobility could not be relied upon to attend parliament in the 1350s and 1360s even when they were present in England , and that these parliaments amounted to little more than tax bargaining sessions between the king and the commons . |
5 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
6 | At little more than walking speed it glides away . |
7 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |