Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] little [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving .
2 Love : the word would be utterly meaningless in this context ; no more than a little blast of sound .
3 In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination .
4 Last winter round here there was nothing more alarming than a little cat-ice in the margins , gone by midday , and it 's now at the stage where I think advice on constructing insulating entire pool covers may have been overtaken by the global weather pattern .
5 Worse than the little horror inside a Dalek casing . ’
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