Example sentences of "[adv] little more than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 2 | He talked about selling Astley and although it was probably little more than talk , he was forced to run it extremely economically , and could not think of another London house on the scale of Eaton Square . |
| 3 | Credit managers have traditionally been regarded in many companies as little more than debt collectors , albeit often highly effective ones . |
| 4 | In many cases , they are provided as little more than typesetting tapes , in need of considerable ’ cleaning up ’ or normalisation . |
| 5 | State authorities attempting to regulate youth culture are seen as little more than parent substitutes . |
| 6 | For instance , Gellner 's attack on analytic philosophy from an anthropological perspective ; the exposure of eugenics in 1930s psychology ; the connections between certain kinds of research in chemistry and the agricultural and food industries ; the models of human motivation — often little more than employee manipulation to be found in management studies ; Illich 's critique of medicine ; and the underlying interest in control over the natural environment within the physical sciences . |
| 7 | There were also some presentational reductions in prices in some isolated , small-scale undertakings , where domestic consumers using electricity for very little more than lighting had been charged very high flat rates per kWh . |