Example sentences of "[conj] [det] [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although little more than a sketch , his work helped inspire John Wilkins 's An Essay Towards a Real Character ( 1668 ) , in which Wilkins acknowledges his indebtedness to Lodwick . |
| 2 | It also recommended that all equity transactions should be published immediately , except those larger than the value of NMS , whereby publication will occur within 90 minutes . |
| 3 | She is fifteen years his junior , and little more than a housekeeper and unpaid bedslave . |
| 4 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 5 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |
| 6 | She could give him a room with a bed , and her asking price for it was only a little above that of Mrs McIntosh , and much less than the inn . |
| 7 | Executive Secretary Peter Garrucho , a key aide of the newly elected Philippine President Fidel Ramos , resigned from the Cabinet on Aug. 10 , after little more than a month in office . |
| 8 | The second game in the three-match one-day series , reduced from four after the first was downgraded to a friendly , was suspended after little more than an hour 's play . |
| 9 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |