Example sentences of "not much [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not much more than a broom cupboard , I know , but what do you think of it ? ’ |
| 2 | In the absence of any corporate direction , BR 's excursion trains then were not much more than a mishmash of bright and not so bright ideas by divisional and area managers , which lost as much money as they made . |
| 3 | All that emerges from it is the sheer nastiness of a group of homosexual writers for whom the working classes were not much more than a floating brothel . |
| 4 | They 're justification for the ‘ he-man ’ tag , with heavy everything at low speeds and not much more than a token lightening up as you press on harder , but not so heavy as to wipe out the sports car 's essential touch of delicacy . |
| 5 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 6 | That was three-quarters of a century ago when most of those who fought here were not much more than boys . |
| 7 | On the opposite bank , not much more than a stream at this point , the hillside was thick with scrub hazel and thorn . |
| 8 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 9 | Mr Major would have a fighting chance ( though not much more than that ) of remaining in Downing Street . |
| 10 | The error was to project the growth trends of the world economy from 1870 to 1914 and see the political order as not much more than a reflex of these trends . |
| 11 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 12 | But not much more than a vague impression of the early impact of the service is provided by these figures , for without an extensive number of regional studies , it is difficult to estimate either the local variations in the success rate or the extent to which different areas established SCC systems alongside the employment bureaux . |
| 13 | It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes . |
| 14 | The difference between these two numbers in chess terms is much smaller than one would think ; not much more than being able to see an additional one or two moves ahead , plus giving special attention to checks and sequences involving piece exchanges and captures . |
| 15 | To enter this competition — just study the three simple questions below and then call our 24 hour hotline — it will cost you not much more than the cost of a first class stamp . |
| 16 | Charles Webb , the author of the novel , who was not much more than Benjamin 's age at the time of writing , had fashioned a different ending . |
| 17 | That quarry , it should be said , is not much more than a small hole in the ground with banking around it . |
| 18 | Joan was recalling the day , not much more than a year ago , when she had found herself alone in a locked room with the innkeeper . |
| 19 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
| 20 | But they totalled nothing like two hundred , not much more than half that probably . |
| 21 | If you bought that many bonds then you would effectively be losing around £3.50 a week in interest , not much more than doing the pools . |
| 22 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left to wage the suit and complete the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the Compartmented Mode Workstation . |
| 23 | It is not much more than a landing strip hacked out of the Canadian wilderness in eastern Ontario , about 200 miles north east of Winnipeg . |
| 24 | Addamax , now not much more than a shell , will be left with waging the suit and completing the government 's Orange Book evaluation of the CMW . |
| 25 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 26 | For many young adults with severe learning difficulties this was not much more than a decade after they became ‘ entitled ’ to full-time education . |
| 27 | Indeed the Street Offences Bill was in Parliament not much more than a year after the Report had been published . |
| 28 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 29 | Because its period is not much more than a month shorter than a year , there are times when maxima occur with Mira too close to the Sun to be seen . |
| 30 | Within not much more than a year , the Boy Scouts had already outstripped the older Boys ' Brigade and Church Lads ' Brigade movements , claiming more than 100,000 members by 1910 . |