Example sentences of "[adj] [det] than a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And not much more than a child herself — only five years older than Tommy . ’ |
| 2 | I was not much more than a child after all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ She would be little more than a child if she has lived , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 6 | And the creature is surely little more than a child . |
| 7 | Raynor said , ‘ He had with him a young boy , little more than a child , it seemed . |
| 8 | She did n't even exist in the equation , since , as far as he was concerned , she was little more than a child . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | She remembered Edmund , little more than a child , grave and courteous , thanking the Empress for her hospitality . |
| 11 | ‘ My mother died when I was little more than a child , ’ he informed her quietly . |
| 12 | 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 . |