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little and more
Curt's fingers put a little more pressure on the trigger of his gun.
And you love Ahmiri, that black bastard of a servant even a little more, because he's a beautiful man.
Its pretense to operate in the public interest is little more than a sham.
Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.
Paula was saddened about what was happening to little girls and vowed to kneel no more in Chapel.
I have been so weary of the excessive rocking of the vessel, and the almost intolerable smell after the rain, that I have done little more than lounge on the bed for several days.
Trevelyan accepts Italian nationalism with little analysis, he is unduly critical of papal and French policy, and he is more than generous in assessing British policy.
The somewhat Petrarchan love story which these poems suggest cannot obscure the fact that undoubtedly they have more than a little of autobiographical sincerity.
For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.
The troops must have more than the common quantity of liquor, and perhaps there will be some little drunkenness among them ''.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
perhaps he was a little more sympathetic to the sides of beef that hung silently from his hooks.
The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.
Back and forth Duclos had to go, between M. De Cury and Jean Jacques and between the Duke D'Aumont and Jean Jacques again, as his little operetta, The Village Soothsayer, though still unperformed, took on ever more importance.
Others have so-called development plans, but some of these are little more than lists of projects collected from various ministries while others are statements of goals without analysis of the actions required to attain them.
There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.
You can get this added heating feature for as little as $200 more than the price of cooling alone.
With greater precision he again paced off a location, this time a little more to the left.
I know something that is much more fun that we can do on our little lawn ''.
Whereas a high percentage of the regular students can be expected to read other texts which more or less plow the same ground in a little different direction, the married students chose whole books on specific areas and went into much greater detail in their areas of interest.
Moreover, all three representations must be squeezed comfortably into little more than the length Brumidi allowed for each one of his.
The time-span of little more than a month cannot entitle me to pose as an expert on anything I saw.
Until such work is done, there must remain the nagging suspicion that alienation may be little more than an expression of the malaise of the intellectual, who, rejected by and in turn rejecting the larger society, projects his own fear and despair onto the broader social screen.

little and than
Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.
All the rest of the days in the White House would be shadowed by the tragic loss, even though the President tried harder than ever to make his little dry jokes and to tease the people around him.
Greek phone service is worse than French, so that it was to be some little time before contact of any sort was established.
In the early days of this controversy over the theater one of the interested parties, Stephen Gosson, published a little tract in which he objected mildly to the abuses of art, rather than the art itself.
As a result, it takes a little longer than it would on the outside where the family physician knows about the patient.
There is little doubt that the number of those who wish to serve will be far greater than our capacity to absorb them.
It is no harder to raise big, healthy, blooming plants than weak, sickly little things ; ;
Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.
In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.
Starting from other value premises than Fromm's, some analysts might conclude that the percentages really tell us very little at all, while others might even conclude that the figures are remarkably low.
The effluent BOD averaged 34 mg/l, a little lower than that of the study at Fayette indicated for a loading of 60 lb. Aj.
The roof was about ready to fall in on Diane's little world, but it took nothing less than the Egyptian revolution to bring it down.

little and twenty
During the twenty years between the Corn Laws and the Second Reform Bill Disraeli would seek a Tory-Radical alliance, to little avail.
The time it takes for cement to cure varies depending on the mixture and environmental conditions ; initial hardening can occur in as little as twenty minutes, while full cure can take over a month.
Over the next twenty years the borders expanded but little, but the governorship of Agricola saw the last pockets of independence in Wales and Northern England finally incorporated into the province.
At twenty years of age, Ravel was already " self-possessed, a little aloof, intellectually biased, given to mild banter.
Due to bad weather and revolts in Gaul the expedition achieves little, but the Roman Senate decrees twenty days of thanksgiving when the expedition returns safely to Gaul.
:" One of them told and confessed, without any pressure, that she had killed thirty children by bleeding them ... she confessed more, saying she had killed her own son ... Answer me: does it really seem to you that someone who has killed twenty or thirty little children in such a way has done so well that when finally they are accused before the Signoria you should go to their aid and beg mercy for them?
The drawings were done in little over a week, and Sir George authorised the construction of twenty examples.
The hacker community, mindful of its origins, quickly dubbed it TWENEX ( a contraction of " twenty TENEX "), even though by this point very little of the original TENEX code remained ( analogously to the differences between AT & T V7 Unix and BSD ).
The earliest recorded eruption of Hekla took place in 1104, since then there have been between twenty and thirty considerable eruptions, with the mountain sometimes remaining active for periods of six years with little pause.
East Syracuse played another role in making the world a little bit smaller in 1996, when Village Trustee Jason M Rhoades, a twenty year old college student and management intern at NYNEX ( now Verizon ), made history by being the first legislator in the world to participate in a legislative meeting by telecom from a business trip in Massachusetts.
I was reminded of some of those leprous facades in the vieux port at Marseille, until suddenly I was disturbed by such a bawling and caterwauling as you never heard, and there, down in the little piazza, I saw a mob of about twenty terrible young men, and do you know what they were chanting We want Blanche.
In the last twenty years the tourist industry has found the beaches and Maceió itself has changed from a rather sleepy little port with coconut palm plantations along its beaches to high-rise hotels.
The ACB felt loyal to the ABC, which had broadcast the game for twenty years when the commercial networks showed little interest in the game.
The film devotes nearly twenty minutes to the battle, which actually lasted little more than an hour before becoming a chase into Montevideo.
Composing a Babson task problem in directmate form ( where white moves first, and must checkmate black against any defence within a stipulated number of moves ) was thought so difficult that very little effort was put into solving it until the 1960s, when Pierre Drumare began his work on the problem which would occupy him for the next twenty years or so.
' Deeper ' and ' Promise ' both reached number twenty with very little radio airplay ; For the majority of their career, " Deeper " was the band's best-selling single with over thirty thousand copies sold.
Though the poets of the group made little headway for the next twenty years, they were ultimately successful in establishing a modernist hegemony and canon in that country that would endure until at least the end of the 20th century.
In 1909 Symons suffered a psychotic breakdown, and published very little new work for a period of more than twenty years.
A typical performance of the whole piece will last a little over twenty minutes.
The game now features twenty variants per side, with a recommendation that each side pick five to mix up the game a little.
He left for the New World before he was twenty and, although little is known about his early career, he appeared in Guatemala in 1827.
John Franklin Broxholme ( born 11 June 1930 Bradford, died 24 June 2000 Bury St Edmunds ) is an English thriller writer who published fifteen novels in a little over twenty years ( 1971 – 1993 ) using the pen name of Duncan Kyle.
Very little of the story — six of the twenty chapters — actually takes place in Oz.
One train famously completed the journey in a little over twenty minutes.

0.943 seconds.