Example sentences of "rarely more than [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet , unlike the middle class , the worker was rarely more than a hair 's breadth removed from the pauper , and insecurity was therefore constant and real .
2 It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water .
3 They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged .
4 Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans .
5 Kitty had stayed in the woods above Buttermere and Lorton ever since — rarely more than a quarter-mile from the rock on which her suitor had been killed .
6 Commissions and inquiries are rarely more than a device to allow politicians to put off taking decisions .
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