Example sentences of "than nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was accustomed to speaking her mind , knew less than nothing about the subject , and uttered the word which no genteel person , particularly a woman , would have spoken , or even known . |
| 2 | Barney was n't often stumped but she knew less than nothing about the sport . |
| 3 | ‘ I know less than nothing about you , and if you 're important , which you must be if you 're a , well , a tycoon , then I expect you entertain a lot — friends , business associates — which means that you 'll need someone who 'll be a credit to you — and I do n't know if I can ! |
| 4 | ‘ Your opinion means less than nothing to me . |
| 5 | It would be better than nothing for the pheasants . |
| 6 | She cared less than nothing for the privileges of the housewife ; the old woman could have kept the keys for ever , and Julian would have been indifferent . |
| 7 | I can assure you that did less than nothing for my morale at the time . |
| 8 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 9 | This was charity on a princely scale , but politically it further exasperated the king , who would rather have taken £500 with ill-will than nothing at all . |
| 10 | This is that a homeland with secure borders , however small , is better than nothing at all . |
| 11 | I emphasize ‘ in my view ’ because not everyone will agree , and of course a very small telescope is a great deal better than nothing at all . |
| 12 | He came to understand the need to settle for half a loaf rather than nothing at all ; he recognized the need to negotiate with legislators while he also discovered how to bring them into line by going over their heads to the people . |
| 13 | But a small sample for comparison is better than nothing at all . |
| 14 | I 'd rather have that than nothing at |
| 15 | Mind you , I suspect she 'll only stay ashore for a couple of hours , but that 's better than nothing at all . ’ |
| 16 | Well , better than nothing at all ! |
| 17 | At an adjoining table , Sharon Dudley and David Wilson described themselves as consultant marketists — they sell discount cards on the basis that ‘ it gives people the stuff they want for three-quarters of the normal price and the shops would rather get 75 per cent of something than nothing in recessionary times ’ . |