Example sentences of "little more [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight years earlier in Patrick Hamilton 's widely-acclaimed novel The Midnight Bell , the young Jews of Soho were presented with little more charity except the reservation that they were ‘ brigands rather than crooks , and would probably end , not in jail , but business . ’ |
| 2 | Right : Styled with elegant black casing and brass trim , the new Valor Heartbeat gas fire gives living flame effect at little more cost than a radiant fire |
| 3 | If we use up almost all our ration of luck in our theory of how life gets started on a planet in the first place , then we are allowed to postulate very little more luck in subsequent parts of our theory , in , say , the cumulative evolution of brains and intelligence . |
| 4 | Ards Seconds had little more luck in the Steel and Sons Cup , losing out to Donegal Celtic 5– in Saturday 's first round . |
| 5 | The much wider social sciences literature concerning bargaining offers little more help . |
| 6 | No help there , and in fact there was little more help to be had from Mordecai at all . |
| 7 | William Empson , a lifelong and dedicated atheist , returned from the Far East in 1952 expecting to find little more demolition-work on religion needing to be done , at least among the lettered , and was horrified to discover that the devout spirit of T. S. Eliot , in his absence , had spawned a host of converts in the critical world . |
| 8 | Marx in this section was strongly influenced by the great German historian Niebuhr , who he quotes , but there is little more development of the ideas outlined in The German Ideology . |
| 9 | Fortunately the village is in a conservation area and hopefully little more development will be permitted . |
| 10 | An articulate Inspector of Accidents who has personal experience of these matters is possibly better able to make an assessment of such things than a lawyer who has little more experience than turbulence in flight spilling some of the champagne in the first class section of the cabin . |
| 11 | Americans may have little more trust in businessmen than other specialists , but they do believe they have the ability to ‘ deliver the goods ’ . |
| 12 | A white spot on a yellow model gathered very little more response . |
| 13 | When the train had emerged from the last tunnel on the Central Line between Stratford and Leyton , issuing with little more space to spare than toothpaste squeezed out of the nozzle of another kind of tube , somewhere past that point , though he was not sure yet where , he would climb out on to the roof of the car . |
| 14 | On its own , enlightened public opinion had little more chance of shaking the regime than in the reign of Alexander II . |
| 15 | Instead , they are more likely to have names like Sonic The Hedgehog , Super Mario Land or Moto X Maniacs and involve little more exercise than pressing buttons . |
| 16 | They wanted to kill one person in the Abbey to shock everybody but do as little more damage as possible . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , because of Police and Trade Union restrictions , a motor bus running in London is allowed very little more flexibility than a trolleybus . |
| 18 | Marty found little more consolation in tuition books … |
| 19 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |
| 20 | I , of course , had no experience of the impromptu tradition , and the others had had little more practice . |
| 21 | It takes very little more energy to kill , say , a sambar , the largest of the Asian deer species — a sambar stag can weigh up to 700 lb ( 320 kg ) — than a tiny muntjac or hog deer . |
| 22 | Little more need to said about mass tourism in this period . |
| 23 | He simply stood still saying nothing until the cries died away , and then told them what they were waiting for , and that he expected little more fighting . |
| 24 | He conceded she was right but admitted that the frustration of having the MacQuillan case within feet of his desk and very little more information than reporters miles away had worn down his enthusiasm . |
| 25 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 26 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |