Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [det] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 2 | Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions . |
| 3 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 4 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 5 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 6 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 7 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 8 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 9 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 10 | For example in Wales there are now less than a quarter of the district councils which were previously in existence . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm already less than a metre high . |
| 12 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 13 | Incidentally , though Walker is held to be still more than a touch rusty after so long away from rugby — inclined , for instance , to carry the ball under the wrong arm — the rapidity with which he has come into cap contention ought to be food for thought for our own Jamie Henderson . |
| 14 | The woman of the future would be far more than a nurse or consoler , she would have a positive religion to realize as a high-priestess of health . |
| 15 | I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 17 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 18 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 19 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 20 | The words were little more than a whisper . |
| 21 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 22 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 23 | When news of a flourishing Swedish house scene began to break 18 months ago , it looked like being little more than a PR scam based around the fact that Neneh Cherry 's half-sister Titiyo could sing and came from Stockholm . |
| 24 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 25 | Bill were not more than a baby when his brother Harold died . |
| 26 | If the hall is too narrow for this and many entrance ways are barely more than a corridor , try to get in a long bench or a very narrow console , or at the very least a stool and a shelf . |
| 27 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 28 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 29 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 30 | Eleven years on , this continues , though now there is perhaps more than a tinge of pity for my ‘ lonely ’ existence . |