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• The World Cup is coming to the U.S. in a little more than three years.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
• For now, a space off 75th Street and Frontage Road is little more than a hole in the ground.
  — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2024
• There’s been a little more than half the rain that should have fallen so far in 2023 in the D.C. area.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
• Vox is a faction that’s a little more than a decade old.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• But the game was in the fourth inning and still only a little more than an hour old.
  — Chelsea Janes, Scott Allen and Ben Strauss, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Music was little more than a class and a side hobby to him.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2024
• At the time, that seemed like little more than a fantasy.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
• The tornado track seen in the image is a little more than eight miles long.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• If this fails, the asteroid will be little more than a blur as Lucy zips by.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2023
• Williams, 36, had argued for a sentence of a little more than four years.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Jerry Moore, the youngest of the four boys, was little more than a toddler when his brothers left.
  — Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
• For most of the people watching that day, the PR2 was little more than a novelty.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
• Her children had eaten little more than a hot dog a day for three days.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Homer listens to Blake sing for a little more than two minutes.
  — Michael Kosser, Variety, 12 May 2023
• But those who could Friday packed into cars with little more than the clothes on their backs and drove out of Gaza City.
  — Hind Khoudary, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• Among those ensnared in the Jungle was a specter of a man who possessed little more than his name: Thomas Rath.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• Some redactions are little more than a word in length; others appear as large black blocks on the page.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 17 Oct. 2024
• The bags shrunk by a little more than 10% and once compressed, fit easily under a bed and on a cube shelf.
  — Brittany Vanderbill, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Aug. 2023
• The current station did its job, but is little more than a wooden deck.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 6 Jan. 2024
• Anyway, the race is a little more than a quarter of the way over, and in Turn 3, headliner Kaskade is playing in the Snake Pit and there is quite the crowd.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2023
• Though the larval moths grow little more than an inch long, their sting can put an adult human in the hospital.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• On account of that, some team broadcasters do little more than lead cheers for the teams that employ them.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• Families work for little more than a few bucks per bucket of açaí.
  — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• And the fact that Embiid was unable to take part in a workout a little more than 48 hours before Game 1 is telling.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Rights would be little more than words written on paper.
  — Rob Johnson, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• Without a guide giving it context, the island would look like little more than a wild coastal ghost town.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• Often what passes for tea at shops or restaurants is little more than a cup of hot water and a tea bag.
  — Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• Detroit has the hot hand, having made up five games in little more than a week to catch Kansas City, which has lost seven in a row.
  — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
• Pharmacy seemed like little more than a way to squeeze a bit more revenue out of its Prime member base.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• However, the data offers little more than a blurry snapshot of the U.S. economy due to the one-off disruptions last month.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024