How to Use little more than in a Sentence
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Other properties claiming to be surf hotels do little more than point you to a nearby surf school or surf shop for rentals.
— Noah Lederman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The players were immigrants or the sons of immigrants, playing a game that was considered a national pastime in the old country but little more than a waste of time in the new one.
— Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
They are treated as little more than cogs in the war machine of a nation that has enslaved their homeland.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
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