Example sentences of "no [det] than [art] faint [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon was the first to provide irrefutable evidence of what had been until then no more than a faint suspicion : that puerperal fever was a contagious disease that could be carried from patient to patient by doctors and midwives . |
| 2 | It 's reassuring to get things into some kind of cosmic perspective , to realize that the total of man 's activity is no more than a faint line on the infinite creativity of God 's hand . ’ |
| 3 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 4 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 5 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 6 | Man is capable of a measure of creativity and mutual co-operation of which history has witnessed no more than the faintest inkling . |