Example sentences of "little [det] than a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little less than a year ago , the Labour leader of Leeds City Council , Jon Trickett , unveiled plans for a transformation of the city 's central shopping streets . |
| 2 | In all , a little less than a quarter of a mile 's walk , though it felt like a marathon . |
| 3 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Despite a tug of interest he moved away , and after a little less than a minute Alison returned . |
| 5 | The response was tremendous ; the reaction incredibly enthusiastic , and so from that point , it became a little more than a folk club . |
| 6 | Many World War One Aerodromes are little more than a folk memory kept alive by such names as Aerodrome Cottages at Hadleigh in Suffolk . |
| 7 | Hardly able to see a hand in front of her , but refusing to be daunted , Luce moved as fast as she dared down an alley-way little more than a metre wide . |
| 8 | Calls reedier and much less musical than Swallow or House Martin , twittering song being little more than a repetition of call note . |
| 9 | An attempt to cajole lay opposition was made by the issue of the ‘ Articles of Stamford ’ in July 1309 , but they were little more than a reissue of the Articles on the Charters , Articuli super Cartas , of 1300 . |
| 10 | The branch line was not immediately axed by Beeching , but the writing was on the wall , and on 3 January 1972 the last passenger train left Swanage ‘ from a station little more than a ghost ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Nonsense , you are little more than a slip of a girl , you would be prey to all sorts of men , fortune hunters and the like . |
| 12 | You 're little more than a girl . |
| 13 | There have been scores of potentially dangerous incidents , some of them in a generator little more than a mile from the border with West Germany . |
| 14 | Although it is often treated as a little more than a menu system , the Windows Program Manager is a flexible organising tool for the Windows environment . |
| 15 | It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago . |
| 16 | Since opening the gates to the Magic Kingdom a little more than a year ago , Euro Disney has been beset by a series of much-publicised problems : poor attendance , labour disputes , French snobbery and pan-European discontent over high prices and long queues . |
| 17 | After a little more than a year , she alone had transformed it into a place where the children could play in safety , a stretch of patchy grass with a few well-cared-for roses round its border , and an immensely high wall skirting the garden from one end to the other . |
| 18 | When the Minister made it clear a little more than a year ago that he was changing his attitude towards the Government of Syria , he said that he was able to do so because there was no known connection with terrorist organisations , such as that involving the appalling man , Jibril . |
| 19 | In fact , the other members of the cast were wary of the actor whose leading lady , a classical actress , had walked out on him little more than a year earlier in the stage play Same Time , Next Year . |
| 20 | You would do well to remember that you yourself are little more than a child . |
| 21 | For even then I was falling in love with you , though you were little more than a child at the time . ’ |
| 22 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 23 | Billie Jean King , who little more than a decade ago was still thrilling Wimbledon crowds , is 48 and Sixties soccer idol George Best is three months older than Clinton . |
| 24 | Yet serious research into the history of textiles goes back little more than a century . |
| 25 | Most Secretaries of State only manage to tap the helm , giving Defence policy little more than a change in emphasis during their time in office . |
| 26 | Before this century , Roman Ilchester was poorly known , and even Haverfield , in 1906 , thought it little more than a village . |
| 27 | It was hardly even a coincidence ( Charles had told his Aquitanian supporters little more than a fortnight before to follow him northwards , and envoys from Lothar found no difficulty in locating Charles at Troyes on Easter Monday , 18 April ) . |
| 28 | Seven days a week he works on the new ski lodge in the woodlands overlooking the valley , his private quarters little more than a sleeping-bag in a back room behind the new reception area . |
| 29 | After a brief spell with ex-GN Class 312s , relief came in 1988 with brand-new Class 321s , sporting a smart exterior , but in truth little more than a Class 319 Thameslink unit without the end gangway connection . |
| 30 | In a few lines , just a little more than a note , he had told her that Maria was depressed . |