Example sentences of "little more [conj] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | IN SPITE of their success with chilled lamb in some Scottish stores last year , New Zealand suppliers seem to have accepted this is little more than a coals to Newcastle exercise . |
2 | It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home . |
3 | So sex education becomes crucially important , but while the 1986 Education Act and Section 28 remain in place , sex education in Britain will consist of little more than a hymn to family life , largely devoid of any education about sex . |
4 | On that Friday morning three weeks ago , I was little more than an irritant to dozens of drivers caught in a traffic jam as police cars and ambulances blocked their way to work or school . |
5 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
6 | Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ . |