How to Use little more than in a Sentence

little more than

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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
  • That said, there’s something to be said for a cheesy shark movie, even the ones that are little more than Jaws rip-offs.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 June 2025
  • At the time, that seemed like little more than a fantasy.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2023
  • Search results give you little more than links to forms.
    — PCMAG, 4 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • But as a film, Mamet’s adaptation should leave you with little more than a desire to see the play.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2025
  • For most of the people watching that day, the PR2 was little more than a novelty.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2023
  • And trying to play dress-up as a clay-court specialist for eight weeks of the year is little more than a waste of time.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 June 2025
  • 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
  • We had been hidden little more than an hour when a flock of turkeys streamed above the ledge and single-filed up the canyon.
    — Percy Brown, Outdoor Life, 12 June 2025
  • 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
  • One team had stars and most of the victories; the other had little more than wishes.
    — Janis Carr, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Unlike Blue Ghost’s 45-day voyage to the moon, Athena’s lasted for little more than a week.
    — Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • For the rest of the season, there were many discussions but little more than detente.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • For decades, Charles Burnett’s best film was little more than a rumor.
    — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The latter relegates you to little more than an order taker.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

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