Example sentences of "little more than [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 2 | The court was told that the dog was so emaciated that it was little more than skin and bone . |
| 3 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 4 | Abrasive cleaners : At their simplest these are the scouring powders formulated from little more than sand or feldspar , the aggregate and a small amount of chlorine release agent . |
| 5 | Many of the most apparently distinguished honours are a reward for little more than longevity or political servitude . |
| 6 | Gilkes is content enough with the Sparc market that his firm has to itself at the present , though he admits that the company is looking at other , unspecified RISC architectures , and it really is only just little more than co-incidence that Tadpole 's US office is just down the street from where IBM/Motorola Inc 's PowerPC RISC efforts are concentrated . |
| 7 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 8 | But new-wave sanitation experts say sewerage offers little more than convenience when compared to well thought-out latrines . |