little more than
idiom
: not much more than (something) : only slightly more than (something)
They ate little more than ice cream and hot dogs all day.
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This would shatter the company's previous booster turnaround, set in November, of a little more than 13 days.
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Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Instead of nurturing free-thinking, well-rounded, resilient youth, today's educational institutions manipulate the country's youngest citizens into political pawns, little more than child soldiers in a larger war on traditional values.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Much of Gladys’s ride was through mountains, on roads that were little more than cattle trails, or on rough corduroy used by heavy logging wagons (this was long before the day of logging trucks) with crude pole bridges.
—Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
The only one charged with David’s murder is a 13-year-old boy — so young that San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph told reporters last month the boy will likely serve little more than eight months in a youth ranch if found guilty.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025
Instead of nurturing free-thinking, well-rounded, resilient youth, today's educational institutions manipulate the country's youngest citizens into political pawns, little more than child soldiers in a larger war on traditional values.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
Much of Gladys’s ride was through mountains, on roads that were little more than cattle trails, or on rough corduroy used by heavy logging wagons (this was long before the day of logging trucks) with crude pole bridges.
—Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
The only one charged with David’s murder is a 13-year-old boy — so young that San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph told reporters last month the boy will likely serve little more than eight months in a youth ranch if found guilty.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Little more than.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/little%20more%20than. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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