Example sentences of "to little [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In part , this reflected the greatly reduced role of hospital services , which fell from three-quarters to little more than a quarter of all residential places . |
2 | An added paradox to the Narvik actions was the Germans ' own demolitions that destroyed much of the port 's facilities , reducing iron-ore shipments to little more than a quarter of the pre-war level . |
3 | The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling . |
4 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
5 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
6 | Now that the two have fallen out , over maintaining a single currency and unified armed forces , the successor to the Soviet Union has dwindled to little more than a name . |
7 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
8 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
9 | It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March . |
10 | While some contributions amount to little more than a description of manufacturers ' software , others delve into the concepts and methodologies . |
11 | Noreen 's role had diminished to little more than a chaperone for Maria . |
12 | The certificate on form R190(SD) must be completed but this can be done at any time and amounts to little more than a claim procedure . |
13 | But what I will say , " she added , her voice falling to little more than a whisper , " is that if that person does not step forward , it will go badly for all of you . |
14 | The further diminution of the role of gold amounted , then , to little more than a recognition of the existing situation . |
15 | As the hours wore on , the sun became increasing hot , and the wind died to little more than a murmur . |
16 | A first glance at the Corrado suggests that the stubby , two-plus-very-small-two coupe is one of the least practical cars on the market , particularly as the compact dimensions also limit luggage accommodation to little more than a week 's family shopping . |
17 | But , thanks to a combination of high interest rates on traditional deposit accounts over much of this period , coupled to a distinct lack of publicity for SAYE , it has been relegated to little more than a footnote in the long list of savings options . |
18 | Old glassfibre boats are just about infinitely reparable and even that one-time scourge of the plastic boat , osmosis , is reduced to little more than an irritant . |
19 | A great deal of it amounted to little more than an adjunct to farming , typically by smallholders plying a trade on the side . |
20 | 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 ’ . |
21 | The extent of formal training given by employing organisations was usually minimal , amounting to little more than an introduction , with other skills being learned on the job . |
22 | His well-meaning attempt at being nice to Black Britons amounted to little more than the recital of a catalogue of sporting achievement . |
23 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
24 | Extended development of heads and others has in the past amounted to little more than the agglomeration of courses relating to specific short-term issues . |
25 | Another writer has argued that , apart from the period of financial crisis in the immediate aftermath of the war , government control amounted to little more than the application of Keynesian nostrums and wartime controls rather than the application of thoroughgoing plans for the reconstruction of industry . |
26 | For the moment , the revolution of 1327 seemed to amount to little more than the replacement of one greedy and unscrupulous faction by another . |
27 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |