Example sentences of "scarcely more [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 2 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 3 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | Even clothes for ‘ the larger woman ’ are usually modelled on women who are scarcely more than a size 12 . |
| 5 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 6 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 7 | Before her was a narrow ledge , scarcely more than a metre wide . |
| 8 | THE audience that turned up for the recital of British violin sonatas was scarcely more than a sprinkling , which made one despair of our unadventurous public . |
| 9 | If Labour offered only a feeble challenge , the Alliance was scarcely more than a rabble . |