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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The Cats are little more than halfway to proving it, but that is what the eye test tells us two playoff rounds in and after Tuesday night’s 5-2 road victory in Carolina in Game 1 of the Eastern finals.
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
Many moviegoers are taking issue with Hurry Up Tomorrow for being little more than a feature-length promotion for Tesfaye’s studio album of the same name, which was released in January amid the tragic L.A. fires and is billed as a goodbye to his moniker as The Weeknd.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
The perception around the NHL has often been that the Oilers are little more than a two-man offence of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 20 May 2025
La Costa was awarded the championships for three years, a leap of faith for a course that at the time was little more than mounds of dirt and a county that last hosted the NCAAs in 1974 at Carlton Oaks Country Club in Santee.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2025
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Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
Many moviegoers are taking issue with Hurry Up Tomorrow for being little more than a feature-length promotion for Tesfaye’s studio album of the same name, which was released in January amid the tragic L.A. fires and is billed as a goodbye to his moniker as The Weeknd.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2025
The perception around the NHL has often been that the Oilers are little more than a two-man offence of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 20 May 2025
La Costa was awarded the championships for three years, a leap of faith for a course that at the time was little more than mounds of dirt and a county that last hosted the NCAAs in 1974 at Carlton Oaks Country Club in Santee.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 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 May. 2025.
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