Example sentences of "[adv] more [conj] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't have been more than ten then and by our standards would be scarcely more than a child now . |
| 2 | I am scarcely more than a child . |
| 3 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 4 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 5 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 6 | After all , give someone who is barely more than a child a high-powered ‘ toy ’ and there is bound to be trouble when they go out to play with it . |
| 7 | She 's barely more than a child , he told himself again . |