Example sentences of "[vb -s] little [det] than a " in BNC.

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1 In the end , this is a book without a conclusion — despite its charts , its statistical tables and its thickets of notes , it offers little more than a collection of historical raw material .
2 It was once an important port , but now contains little more than a wharf , the use of which is also limited by the extremely wide range of the Severn Estuary tides .
3 Barbados , which even now has little more than a quarter of a million people , has led the way with a roll of honour of mind-boggling proportions .
4 Engineering , which played so central a role in this country 's industrial development , now has little more than a bit part according to many economists and politicians .
5 Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two .
6 Behind these it requires little more than a bag .
7 This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 .
8 This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 .
9 Yet they also point to the conflict between feminism inside art history , which often seems little more than a maker of changing the gender of the artist as hero , and feminism as a more complex , multi-focused , or interdisciplinary project which utterly transforms the objects art history usually studies by refusing to treat them as simply ‘ works of art ’ created by ‘ artists ’ .
10 But the idea of true integration — that is , a normal university post — new seems little more than a pipedream .
11 So , it might be asked , why is it important to examine in detail what , after all , merits little more than a few paragraphs in conventional histories of education ?
12 Home becomes little more than a dormitory , an evening and weekend extension to the office .
13 Shortly after this point the road becomes little more than a bridle path or cart track which , however , provides an intriguing pass-walk of about 4 hours duration over the Pragel Pass to Richisau 's alpine pasture leading down to the beautiful Klontal valley in the canton of Glarus .
14 So reading becomes little more than a way of replaying Hollywood 's movies in our minds .
15 It provides little more than a footnote to the account of the journey home .
16 Agriculture provides little more than a quarter of total exports ; no doubt that figure can be improved , but not enormously .
17 The notion of a learned non-correlation fails for a rather different reason — it can accommodate the facts but largely because it attempts little more than a redescription of the facts to be explained .
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