Example sentences of "little [adj] than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 2 | However that might have been , it was clear that the elderly female residents regarded her as little better than a whore . |
| 3 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 4 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 5 | She particularly hated the small kitchen , which was little more than a passageway and had no worksurfaces or cupboards . |
| 6 | The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling . |
| 7 | The pilot 's bum is little more than a foot off the ground and one is towered over by a Cessna 172 ! |
| 8 | The first stage of the scaffolding was little more than a foot above his head . |
| 9 | The Kuwait embassy in Jordan described the withdrawal as little more than a manoeuvre to disguise the theft of Kuwaiti military equipment . |
| 10 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 11 | This seems little more than a ploy to ensure the revised estimate of demand ( 1992 ) matches that previously forecast in 1991 . |
| 12 | Again most of these stars are red , with spectral types of M , R , N or S. Their amplitudes are less than for the Mira stars , and usually amount to little more than a magnitude . |
| 13 | A goods transporter — little more than a metal platform hovering a few centimetres above the floor — edged through the doorway , with the sixth android at the controls . |
| 14 | It fears that the ¥200 billion school project will amount to little more than a bail-out of struggling Japanese computer makers — such as NEC , which made its first ever consolidated loss , of ¥44 billion , in the year to March . |
| 15 | Very little more than a bio-day later they had established that our exit molecules corresponded with our entry molecules , save for those of the cylinder that we 'd acquired and that was accounted for in their scanning . |
| 16 | Ermine moths , for example , economise by constructing a cocoon that is little more than a lattice . |
| 17 | That makes the investment look like little more than a punt on First Fidelity 's shares — a profitable punt , perhaps , but a punt nonetheless . |
| 18 | Only 18 months ago , it was little more than a dream , the brainchild of himself and a few radical economists , blending Mr Gorbachev 's plans for economic decentralisation with crystallising Estonian nationalism . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the adverse opinion polls , they were conscious that Britain was in the midst of its second deep recession in little more than a decade . |
| 20 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 21 | These discoveries are relatively recent for a particular reason : medical scientists only started seriously investigating the benefits of high-fibre little more than a decade ago . |
| 22 | In little more than a decade , its operating systems have won dominance in the personal-computer industry . |
| 23 | For little more than a decade , the high level qualification available to students seeking a first degree equivalent was the Diploma in Art and Design ( Dip.AD ) . |
| 24 | His stage presence lately has been little more than a presence ; he seems happy to stand in the shadows , occupying his usual spot on the drum riser while the spotlight dances on Bez and Bez dances with Rowetta and Rowetta plays with her whip , a caricature bad girl playing with the bad boys . |
| 25 | Dean , an early influence on anyone of Jack 's age , had little more than a year left of his life and was in regular attendance in 1954 , which was also the year Marlon Brando made it very big indeed in another Kazan film , On the Waterfront . |
| 26 | The couple stayed together for little more than a year and their son died before he was 12 months old , an incident that was to haunt Gallacher throughout his precociously successful playing career . |
| 27 | Little more than a year earlier there had been that never-to-be-forgotten encounter at the inn . |
| 28 | But in the space of little more than a year he found that Clift had ‘ deteriorated to a shocking degree ’ : |
| 29 | Little more than a year ago you could n't give away shares in the small computer company sector — so friendless were they that Star Computer Group Plc found it necessary to get into bed with a purveyor of pizzas to improve its visibility and rating : after Tadpole Technology Plc and now Division Group Plc — which soared to 107 pence on its first day of trading from the 40 pence placing price before settling at 96 pence — the rest of the sector looks set for a re-rating as investors seek to discern hidden charms that others have overlooked . |
| 30 | But Maud died childless little more than a year after her father , and thus the inheritance was unexpectedly reunited in Gaunt 's hands . |