Example sentences of "little [det] than [art] child " in BNC.

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1 The musical follows Chaplin 's career from the time , when little more than a child , he appeared on the stage at an Aldershot theatre in 1894 when his mother — a music hall artist — lost her voice , until in 1972 the film industry recognised his tremendous creative work with the presentation of a Special Academy Award .
2 ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said .
3 She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes .
4 And the creature is surely little more than a child .
5 Raynor said , ‘ He had with him a young boy , little more than a child , it seemed .
6 She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child .
7 ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same .
8 She remembered Edmund , little more than a child , grave and courteous , thanking the Empress for her hospitality .
9 ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly .
10 For those bombastic outbursts , Gerard shrewdly blamed ‘ the effect of his infernal military education , commencing when he was a child ’ and here indeed , when one recalls the poses being struck throughout pre-war Europe , the Crown Prince appears as little more than a child of the age .
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