Example sentences of "[vb pp] little [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations .
2 In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations .
3 Next to Assad 's Syria , Colonel Gaddafi 's Libya had become little more than a refuge for Palestinian extremists , a useful quartermaster s supply depot for arms and explosives , and a convenient whipping boy for Western governments anxious to be seen taking a strong line on terrorism without risking their strategic interests in the Middle East .
4 In fact the land around this former beauty spot had become little more than a rubbish tip .
5 And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago .
6 The strong diagonal wind allowed little more than a glimpse of the sweeping crossfield passing game of which they are capable .
7 The descent , mirrored by a similar plunge against the dollar , has taken little more than a fortnight .
8 For socialists of this persuasion , their model society has required little more than the superimposition of a substantial state sector on to societies characterized by markets , private ownership and liberal democracy .
9 Usually this has required little more than the extension of existing legislation to cover the special case of Arctic reserves .
10 The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term .
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