Example sentences of "[det] than a [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deserves to succeed , and hints more than a little at a film soundtrack . |
| 2 | Anyone who succeeded in business in the past decade owed more than a little to the climate she created . |
| 3 | Tactfully , he designed a 4–6–0 express passenger locomotive that owed more than a little to Jones 's influence , and it was very successful on the demanding gradients of the Perth–Inverness line . |
| 4 | Carpenter , predictably , finds the three essayists — Richard Humphreys , John Alexander and Peter Robinson — ‘ taking a rather solemn approach to the whole thing ’ ; whereas , he assures us , Pound 's exertions on behalf of these arts partook ‘ more than a little of the amiable joke ’ . |
| 5 | His father , Isaac , a gentleman with more than a little of the rogue about him , was in Jamaica during the closing years of the 18th century , taking refuge there , it would seem , after a bankruptcy of 1779 . |