Example sentences of "little more [subord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a brief spell with ex-GN Class 312s , relief came in 1988 with brand-new Class 321s , sporting a smart exterior , but in truth little more than a Class 319 Thameslink unit without the end gangway connection . |
| 2 | The island , in truth little more than a detached headland , is about seventy metres high , and progress on to it is by way of one of many gullies filled with sand . |
| 3 | The response was tremendous ; the reaction incredibly enthusiastic , and so from that point , it became a little more than a folk club . |
| 4 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 5 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 6 | In fact , the TECs are little more than a device for luring the private sector into tackling unemployment . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a few lines , just a little more than a note , he had told her that Maria was depressed . |
| 9 | In substance , the Church of England is now self-regulating and Parliament 's role in connection with its legislation little more than a throwback to the days when the established Church had a more substantial role to play in the affairs of the State . |
| 10 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 11 | This inevitably means that a helicopter set will cost a little more than a basic aircraft set which needs no more than four channels . |
| 12 | This is not supposed to be a travelogue , and I can see from your faces that you want a little more than a cheery jaunt … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Billie Jean King , who little more than a decade ago was still thrilling Wimbledon crowds , is 48 and Sixties soccer idol George Best is three months older than Clinton . |
| 15 | Robert Francis QC , counsel for the Airedale NHS Trust , said Tony 's condition was that of a persistent vegetative state ‘ little more than a living death ’ . |
| 16 | Both show potential , but Farthing 's effort winds up little more than a diagrammatic doodle and Thompson 's feels like a hip TV sketch . |
| 17 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 18 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Since opening the gates to the Magic Kingdom a little more than a year ago , Euro Disney has been beset by a series of much-publicised problems : poor attendance , labour disputes , French snobbery and pan-European discontent over high prices and long queues . |
| 21 | The database is also obviously incomplete , being little more than a list of fields for you to fill in . |
| 22 | Yet serious research into the history of textiles goes back little more than a century . |
| 23 | There is none of the variety which O'Brian provides through the intimate or casual conversations of Aubrey and Maturin : although circumstances allow Hornblower a little more than a restricted relationship with his loyal and devoted lieutenant Bush , it is never a Personal friendship . |
| 24 | Many researchers considered MT to be an extension of the code breaking techniques developed during World War 2 , whereby foreign languages were little more than a complex coding of words and translation required merely the use of a bi-lingual dictionary . |
| 25 | The branch line was not immediately axed by Beeching , but the writing was on the wall , and on 3 January 1972 the last passenger train left Swanage ‘ from a station little more than a ghost ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 28 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 29 | Seven days a week he works on the new ski lodge in the woodlands overlooking the valley , his private quarters little more than a sleeping-bag in a back room behind the new reception area . |
| 30 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |