Example sentences of "[prep] little more [subord] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of simple redundancy occurs widely in databases and a significant level of compression can thereby be achieved through little more than an exercise of commonsense and ingenuity . |
| 2 | The talks ended with little more than an agreement to hold a third round in Norway in early 1993 . |
| 3 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 4 | The 34-year-old American was obviously not troubled by the predictions , however , as she confidently dispatched Novotna 6-2 , 6-3 in little more than an hour . |
| 5 | She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’ |
| 6 | Father had said Cornwall might be different and in little more than an hour , how different it was . |
| 7 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
| 8 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
| 9 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |
| 10 | The extent of formal training given by employing organisations was usually minimal , amounting to little more than an introduction , with other skills being learned on the job . |