Example sentences of "little more than a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 2 | These discoveries are relatively recent for a particular reason : medical scientists only started seriously investigating the benefits of high-fibre little more than a decade ago . |
| 3 | Little more than a year later Charles IV , uncle ( through his sister Isabella ) of Edward III , also died , leaving no direct heir as king of France . |
| 4 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 5 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 6 | This is no more than the flight time to Mexico city , with which Merida lacked road and rail communication until little more than a generation ago . |
| 7 | Little more than a generation later , in 1857 , it was almost 60,000 . |
| 8 | Little more than a century ago most people , even in industrialized countries , rarely travelled more than a few miles from their birthplace . |
| 9 | Little more than a century ago , when the river ran free , the Comanche would have taken our scalps for being here . |
| 10 | Little more than a century ago , most of the river bank where huge shipyards now stand was fertile agricultural land . |
| 11 | It 's little more than a century ago that women were still being led to market to be sold to the highest bidder — in England . |
| 12 | With that number about little more than a century ago , it might be thought an easy matter to run one to earth . |
| 13 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 14 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 15 | And ‘ of course ’ Maxim did , because it was the island — little more than a peninsula really — in the Baltic where the East German version of the Special Air Service did its training . |
| 16 | On the following day the Országgyülés adopted a new law on internal security , including strict controls on the use of telephone and mail surveillance , after hearing acting Interior Minister Zoltan Pál admit that covert monitoring of the opposition had continued until little more than a week before , and that documents relating to the scandal had been shredded in defiance of a government order to secure all files for investigation . |