Example sentences of "little more than [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 2 | A film of his most recent novel , The Unbearable Lightness of Being , conveys little more than that he a master of the erotic situation . |
| 3 | To one person this is an amusing fantasy , worth mentioning at the breakfast table , perhaps , but little more than that ; to the other it is a horrific nightmare which lingers in the memory for days . |
| 4 | It has to be said that it is an austere document which , although well designed and printed , offers little more than that for which it was intended . |
| 5 | A human life-span is but a blip on the screen of evolution , and the current sea-bird problems may be little more than that . |
| 6 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 7 | It seems likely that a well-recalled ad is something of a bonus to a brand , but little more than that . |
| 8 | The judges have been willing to concede little more than that separation agreements , divorce and certain other matrimonial orders which were not available in Hale 's time must have some effect upon the exemption . |
| 9 | She was used to insolent treatment from fellow servants — for she had long learned that a companion , be she never so genteel , was regarded as little more than that . |
| 10 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 11 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 12 | Noteworthy design features of the Swearingen SJ30 include a tiny , highly swept wing with powerful high-lift devices , small-diameter cabin and marked area-ruling around the engines , giving a max cruise of 0.77 Mach despite its low power — its Williams/R-R fanjets have little more than half the thrust of a Lear 31A 's engines . |
| 13 | As for the 40% match-fee fine placed upon Pakistan for their slow over rate , this is little more than half of technically should have been applied , but Mr Hunte made certain allowances . |
| 14 | In the moth Diurnea fagella , for example , the wings of the female are lanceolate appendages , little more than half the length of those of the male and useless for flight . |
| 15 | Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders . |
| 16 | It is more than two feet high , a very big vase for its time but little more than half the height of the grave-vase fig. 46 . |
| 17 | The turnout at a local election is also on average little more than half that at a general election . |
| 18 | When there was little more than half an inch left protruding from the frame he gripped it with thumb and forefinger and started to work it around . |
| 19 | Imagine then , how you would feel if your income had shrunk each year to the point where you could now buy little more than half what you could in 1970 . |
| 20 | — little more than half the 0.51 per cent . |
| 21 | The December turnout was only 3,700,000 , of 14,200,000 eligible voters , or little more than half the number who had voted in a referendum in May in favour of the establishment of the Assembly [ see p. 37450 ] . |
| 22 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 23 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 24 | The capital charges typically incurred by the Boards on new domestic connections were as much as £1 per quarter , while many consumers ( especially new ones ) paid little more than this ( and thus insufficient to cover the additional costs of supplying current ) in the early years . |
| 25 | Sometimes it appears to be little more than this , as in the case of the temporary vogue for ‘ Occitania ’ in France in the 1970s , the shift of a number of able intellectuals of the Left to Scottish nationalism in the same decade and the preoccupation with what was claimed to be Valencian national identity in the early 1980s among left intellectuals of the Spanish Levante . |
| 26 | We should not be trying to create an image that school is little more than some form of elaborate and expensive ‘ Trivial pursuit ’ ( Sullivan 1988 ) . |
| 27 | By contrast , his present legislation is expected to sail through with little more than some scattered shots from the Parti Québécois . |
| 28 | ( Papineau , 1985a ) I shall content myself with little more than some comments . |
| 29 | The requirement that analysis be objective or scientific is often little more than another means of social control . |
| 30 | If one agrees with the view of Sharpe , White , , and Bernard that prior to 1625 predestination had merely been one of a number of alternative doctrines vying for supremacy within the church , the rise to power of the Laudians represented little more than another swing of a theological pendulum which had been fluctuating wildly since 1560 . |