Example sentences of "[adv] [det] more 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 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 .
4 And the creature is surely little more than a child .
5 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 .
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