Example sentences of "hardly [adj] than a " in BNC.

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1 Your bum 's hardly bigger than a fist .
2 This dilemma for a game with millions of followers worldwide has proved to be a ‘ bunch of sixes ’ opportunity for Welsh inventor Don Hughes , a self-confessed liardice buff , who claims to have beaten the Far East electronics industry literally at its own game by developing an electronic version that is hardly bigger than a credit card .
3 The piece of wood , hardly bigger than a large rhubarb leaf was lightly aground .
4 The small Derbyshire town of Dronfield provides a vivid illustration of the way that an old market centre hardly bigger than a village could be gradually changed by industrial development and then transformed in character when the decision was made to build a new steel works there .
5 Most proteins , on which all the functions of Earthly life depend , are denatured — which essentially means ‘ cooked ’ — if their temperature is raised above about 45°C ; hardly hotter than a hot bath .
6 We were let through with barely a curled lip , and found ourselves in a foyer hardly smaller than a pyramid .
7 Diderot is hardly more than a name .
8 The thought was scarcely born before James Lambert himself appeared , hardly more than a shadow in the dusk , but unmistakable as he walked past the pile of kegs .
9 Until 1981 she was a virtually unknown architect , hardly more than a student .
10 One chair at the bottom of the table was empty , and as I came in Dr Barton , with hardly more than a nod in my direction , indicated the chair and said sternly , ‘ You may sit , Doctor Masters , while we ask you a few questions . ’
11 It was very small , hardly more than a box room , with a single high window .
12 Hardly more than a village , the latter possessed no more wealth than any sizeable one and no distinctive characteristics ; most of the population of the huge parish was scattered among hamlets , locally called ‘ yelds ’ , which showed few signs of industrial growth .
13 It was hardly more than a flicker in the eyes , but suddenly Ruth felt she glimpsed Adam again , her own brother , looking out at her desperately .
14 Hardly more than a boy , in fact .
15 Now , with hardly more than a month of 1920 remaining , they were being honoured with the presence of the JNF 's top secretary , who would make the final arrangements , tie up the loose ends , perhaps name the day .
16 The gates to this were kept permanently locked but there was a less conspicuous entrance , hardly more than a mud road , amongst the trees a hundred yards along .
17 The moon was hardly more than a pale sliver , and surely not enough to see by .
18 Alina peered toward the lake , which was hardly more than a sliver on the horizon .
19 The girl who answered was just that — hardly more than a girl .
20 The inquest was hardly more than a formality , the verdict an inevitability .
21 And in that silence a whisper , hardly more than a breath : ‘ Isabelle 's daughter . ’
22 Anna 's reply came out as hardly more than a whisper .
23 Charles outlived him by hardly more than a year : his life was thus in a sense overshadowed by Louis , constantly subject to fraternal political pressure , his kingdom twice fraternally-invaded , his ultimate imperial plans beset by fraternal rivalry .
24 Ermold 's final section covering the reception of the Danes at Ingelheim was written within hardly more than a year of the event , and with an explicit purpose : every detail was calculated to please Louis and Judith in 827 .
25 It was not much of a town — hardly more than a village .
26 A diplomat who spent most of his working life in foreign capitals could easily feel himself part of an aristocratic international to which national feeling was hardly more than a vulgar plebeian prejudice .
27 Another rarely used road , hardly wider than a car , it has the merit of going down , while the new road goes up .
28 It was hardly wider than a car and somebody had parked a van halfway along .
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