Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] little more than [art] " in BNC.

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1 In the shopping mall you can see these employees , working alone for little more than the minimum wage , surrounded by some of the world 's most sophisticated monitoring systems .
2 The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career .
3 And , in the end , unless we challenge our assumptions , we may end up with little more than a large collection of inwardlooking occupational ethnographies between which the connections still remained to be demonstrated .
4 Mills and Boon , however , rigorously deny any charge of producing ‘ formula fiction ’ ; their instructions to potential authors , as they insist , and as some critics have noted with surprise , add up to little more than an encouragement to ‘ freshness and originality of approach ’ .
5 At these meetings , the great issues of the day are discussed , sometimes for little more than a few minutes , on other occasions the questions and answers can take an hour .
6 People occurred along the way and some would be talked to , questioned , while some were passed by with little more than a cursory glance .
7 At one extreme ( for instance , when grass-letting ) you can get by with little more than the dwelling house : at the other ( on an intensively-run livestock farm ) special buildings are essential .
8 She says they can be there in little more than an hour . ’
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