Example sentences of "[adv] little more than an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 2 | Unless there is regular guidance given to parents through workshops and school produced booklets the arrival home of the reading book will be seen as little more than an opportunity to check when the teacher last heard their child read and a chance to rush their child to the next stage on the reading scheme . |
| 3 | After narrowly averting yet another strike last year , AT&T might easily have decided to treat its relations with the unions as little more than an exercise in damage control . |
| 4 | However , despite Laud 's personal antipathy towards the papacy , the 1630s did see a growth in the influence of Catholicism over the English government and an improvement in relations between Charles 's court and the papal curia , and for the large numbers of English Protestants who were unable to distinguish between Arminianism and popery and who regarded Laud as little more than an agent of Rome , there could be no doubt that the archbishop was to blame . |
| 5 | Those who regard the media as little more than an arm of the capitalist state ( Miliband , 1969 ) will be content with a structural or conspiratorial explanation , emphasising the institutional dependence and ideological role of the media . |