Example sentences of "was [det] [adj] than the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each child had one pair of all-purpose shoes but often there was little more than the uppers remaining . |
| 2 | All this was little more than the Ministry of Health could offer in 1935 as advice for scheme preparation , in guidance which remained in force for the remainder of the decade . |
| 3 | It is important to see , however , that what was involved in the contract between the employer ( the multi-national Philips ) and the specialist operator was little more than the sub-contracting of the management of the canteens . |
| 4 | Fullers and carpenters required 20 marks for admission to the livery in the late fifteenth century , but in each case the total number of assessments was much less than the number in the contemporary lists , twenty-six and twenty-four respectively , compared with between thirty and forty . |
| 5 | So the rate of growth of employment was much less than the rate of accumulation ( figure 11.3 ) . |