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The programme went from start-up to roll-out in little more than a year, with the first identity numbers allocated in October 2010.

With a little more than two weeks to go before the ceremony, interest -- and scrutiny -- is probably going to be at its highest.

Just a few weeks ago, Cairo was little more than an intriguing place to visit, at least for most investors.

I had come to his door no better than a beggar and little more than a child, he had met me with treachery and violence.

If you're going to travel across the globe on business, it might be nice to see a little more than just the Hiltons of the world.

Political analysts say his position will serve him in good stead with Hindus, who make up a little more than half of Kerala's population.

She sat transfixed, drank a little more than usual, and said that this was one of the most pleasant nights of her life.

And a little more than half say they have had a card that was not as good as they expected.

Owen, who underwent a hernia operation little more than a week ago, says he feels fit and raring to go for the big clash.

When the doctor tells you to do something or you will die, who says, 'Gee, that's a little more than I was hoping to spend today'?

A Data Transfer Object is often little more than a bunch of fields and getters and setters for these fields.

He had done all this, and yet at the back of his mind remained the suspicion that he was little more than a quack.

The front controller does the dispatching of the request, but that means a little more than just determining the action to execute.

There are still many airports served by only a few flights a week that have little more than these essentials.

Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago.

With a set of buttons and a loud bell, the device, sold by National Cash Register (NCR), was little more than a simple adding machine.

'I took extra care answering his questions and looked at him a little more' than the rest.

The languid largeness of her eyes showed that her sleep had been little more than his own.

Lenovo earlier this year bought back Lenovo Mobile, its handset unit, which it had sold little more than a year earlier.

Paul's colleague Tommy is trying to piece together the remains from a little more than dinosaur dust.

It has been around for a little more than 10 years but it was in a fairly stagnant state for much of that time.

Heavy but not excessive: network capacity seems to have done little more than keep pace with economic development.

Microformats, another version of structured data in XHTML, was launched a little more than a year later by a grassroots group of developers.

The G-20 Summit is now a little more than a week away and the host, British Prime Minister Gorden Brown, is taking his agenda on tour.

I was twenty five years of age, looked upon as little more than a boy, but I got up and said my say.

Yes, I was signed to a local agency and I think they booked me for two jobs and I was with them for a little more than a year.

But a little more than a century ago, x-ray machines provided a revolution in medicine, allowing doctors to look inside the body.

I guess it's getting to me a little more than I thought.

Another incendiary device, which did not go off, was discovered a little more than a day later in County Armagh.

Public support from Chinese politicians for democracy and human rights is often little more than lip service.

The work itself sometimes seems to be little more than the almost forgotten reason for the war of interpretations going on today.

A camera has always been, and still is, little more than a light proof box that contains some sort of light sensitive media.

His calculation at this point is little more than desperation, the last twist of his hubris.

Debt, such an exalted financing tool a little more than a year ago, is now a four-letter word.

Some go overseas themselves to bring the devices back, and can pay just a little more than $10 to have them unlocked.

Asean itself may be little more than a talk-shop on to which trade and cultural agreements have been bolted.

And what is fifty miles of good road? Little more than half a day's journey. Yes, I call it a very easy distance.

Some of these tools are little more than the word processors, spreadsheet systematic communication systems used in other applications.

Some of these plans will prove little more than red dust blowing in the wind.

So Tawa's revolutionary reform turns out to be little more than a typical story of a rural official trying to make money from land.

Mr Saleh is now backed by little more than the remnants of his ruling party and a trio of security agencies led by a son and two nephews.

Expression of the stage of life can be a little more than an exaggeration, but not too much, gives a sense of affectation.

A little more than halfway through my third pregnancy, my husband and I learned that our baby had a rare tumor on her tailbone.

A little more than a week into their Barclays Premier League title defence and Manchester United already face a must-win game.

At the time of the bond offering, Mandra had no earnings and was little more than a start-up timber producer.

In the meantime, a little more than a year after having started it, NASA quietly dropped its personal air vehicle programme.

The March signs of revival turned out to be little more than a technical inventory correction, with no change in the underlying trend.

Still held up by the party as a patriotic model of the communist "spirit" , the canal is now little more than a tourist attraction.

Official figures show China's consumer price index fell a little more than one percent from the same period a year earlier.

UNHCR Spokesman Ron Redmond says displaced families began returning to Mosul a little more than a week ago.

It moves a little more than a foot at a time, but is much safer than attempting to pull up the entire, aging slab.

A little more than a year ago Belk began managing its private-label program with the web-based TradeStone lifecycle management system.

The memorial comes a little more than a week after a small private funeral was held for family and close friends.

We are a little more than half way through what has already been a remarkable year for Autism Speaks.

If this secular bear market lasts as long as the last secular bull market, we're only a little more than halfway through it.

We had all the information we needed within a little more than a week.

"There's a lot of self-help out there that is little more than common sense dressed up in esoteric language, " he said.

State media have reported some power plants in central China have only enough coal in reserve to cover little more than a week's demand.

On Monday, the public got its first look at the building after a little more than three years of construction.

To branch a RAP, a pair of fibers are cut a little more than to the length and fitted to SC connectors.

Not only was it a language I didnt understand, the letterforms, to my eye, were little more than squiggles .

On Monday, the public got its first look at the building of "water cube" after a little more than three years of construction.

But at current exchange rates, the IMF notes that China's GDP is only $6. 5 trillion or a little more than a third the size of the U.

Somalia's central government controls little more than a few blocks around the presidential palace in Mogadishu and the airport.

Now, with tet a little more than a week away, giap launches a surprise attack base at khe shan.

In late January, the Fed passed China as the single largest holder of Treasury debt, a little more than two years after China passed Japan.

The US and European Union still produce half the world's output between them, with little more than a tenth of its population.

For two years, he was kept in solitary confinement, in a cell that was little more than a toilet hole with a wooden board on top.

Chinese consumers have gotten used to free plastic shopping bags since they were introduced in the country a little more than a decade ago.

After little more than a year of work, Norah Jones released her debut album, Come Away With Me.

Without Twitter, the world might have known little more than a losing candidate accusing the powers that be of alleged fraud.

The succession plan that Kim Jong Il designed for his son is little more than a year old.

But the Great Mechanick was little more than an idol, the kind of human projection that theology, at its best, was supposed to avoid.

Most of the deals struck so far in Asia are "little more than agreements to be friends" , says Mr Tabb.

"We need a little more than knowledge. . . we need wisdom, " he said.

"Your record impresses me, Captain Eclipse, " Lord Vader had told her little more than a week ago.

Nearly half said they wear too much black, and a little more than half said they have difficulty finding trendy yet age-appropriate clothes.

It was a ridiculous question, for the child was little more than a babe.

UNTIL the Arab awakening reached Libya, protesters seemed able to prevail armed with little more than self-belief.

Such programmes used to involve little more than a few leaflets urging staff to exercise, eat less and quit smoking.

A little more than three decades ago, the People's Republic was an isolated, agrarian nation whose closest international ally was Albania.

That would be a sop to non-voting shareholders who suffer from the "Murdoch discount" but would be little more than title-shuffling.

It was possible to make leaps forward in scientific understanding armed with little more than a keen eye and a vivid imagination.

Holiday was only a little more than two weeks, they have to deal with such bad things, a good holiday so scrapped.

The magical shield was little more than an alarm, but only a powerful sorcerer could pass through with an invisibility spell intact.

In December, Splash died, a little more than a year after his master.

Looking back now, he says that he considered computer dating to be little more than a gimmick and a fad.

Government debt in Canada is still below 36% of GDP (and will soon fall), little more than half the (rising) ratio in the United States.

Seen last summer as the vanguard of the struggle against Israel, it is now viewed by many Sunnis as little more than a cat's paw for Iran.

Loie Fuller, after performing Fire Dance, was described as doing little more than turing round and round like an eggbeater.

Her report was little more than smoke and mirrors. No one will believe any of it.

While his brother declined to comment, Chinese media said that at the time he was offered a little more than half that sum for his share.

Early artisans started with little more than raw materials and a rough idea of the finished product.

The residual U. S. force is to stay in Iraq for a little more than a year, and to withdraw by the end of 2011 as required by last year's U.

A local bar regular had been drinking all night. This particular night the regular drank a little more than usual.

Today, a single machine can decipher three human genomes in little more than a week.

Compact biological entities with little more than a handful of genes and a protein coat, viruses lend themselves to engineering.

But renminbi trading is growing fast; that $2bn was literally zero little more than a year ago.

The early camera that first became a phenomenon was a little more than a pinhole camera and can be traced back to 1558.

In a little more than an hour, all Pinocchio's friends were invited to his party.

Oh, that can't possibly work. You'll have a stomachache if you eat too much ice cream. But you can eat just a little more than usual.

Until then, unless he is bold, the southern Mr Jonathan may be allowed to do little more than keep the seat warm.

In little more than a year, 11 of our 238 students have been completely cured.

And a little more than a few minutes to return and find her dead.

The walk is really little more than a cultural touchstone and a literary conceit, the event around which McCann has assembled his cast.

The median income of rural black families ($2, 778) was little more than half that of urban families of rural origin.

A bathroom fan can suck all the heated air out of the average house in little more than an hour.

And calls by the conference's organisers to renew that search might be regarded by old hands as little more than platitudes.

His stone passed all by itself and he left the hospital that day with little more than a determination to drink more water in future.

At present, there's enough capacity globally to make 90m vehicles a year, but demand is little more than 60m in good economic times.

My new office was little more than a cubicle with a small desk and a telephone.

Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds. "

An aircraft of that type and age would normally be expected to have logged little more than 30, 000 flights.

But showing that men think about sex only a little more than women do was just one part of the study's results.

The arrests and trials are little more than quick formalities and he has always been discharged.

Other markers of cardiac health were affected "in a healthy way" by red wine a little more than by white wine, the researchers added.

For now, the subject of their research is little more than a stack of gleaming chips tucked away in a laboratory drawer.

However, without a political head, it is bound to remain little more than an instrument of trade.

In this case the intimacy of the boy and girl might be little more than the continuance in this country of old-world folkways .

In a little more than a year, the school was transformed.

In a little more than a year, the school was transformed.

Unless the VC has different partners, this separate fund is probably little more than a name and hypothetical allocation of money.

As a consequence, television broadcasters now need little more than half the spectrum they hogged before switching to digital transmission.

Build up to eating more supportively and moving a little more than yesterday.

As the Centre for Economics and Business Research has noted, many regions of the UK are now little more than government dependencies.

The door was ajar, and the knocking was little more than a gesture of courtesy. His adversary was here.

Defensive tycoons retort that giving should be a private choice and dismiss American philanthropy as little more than a tax-dodge.

For thousands of years people communicated using little more than words, parchments , stone tablets, and smoke signals.

That's a little more than I planned to spend.

But it amounts to little more than sleight of hand in a crisis where clarity and resolve would do much more to restore confidence.

But it amounts to little more than sleight of hand in a crisis where clarity and resolve would do much more to restore confidence.

Fueled with conviction and urgency, Picasso's abstract masterpiece with a message took little more than a month to complete.

She was a bad cook and could do little more than chops and steaks .

This eclipse falls only a little more than one-half degree from zero degrees Cancer, the solstice point.

chairs a little bit wider and the distance between the rows of little more than between the rows of aircraft "economy class" .

The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time.

France has more industrial companies than Germany, but many are little more than a man, a workshop and a dog.

Physicians without the advantage of science would be little more than witch doctors.

also, you can buy recycled paper as most office supply stores for a little more than standard paper.

Little more than a year ago, some punditswere predicting the downfall of shopping as we know it.

Little more than a year ago, some punditswere predicting the downfall of shopping as we know it.

It was still an imposing set of ruins in the 12th century but soon became little more than an expanse of low ruins and scattered stone.

If lambdas are nothing more than nameless functions, then closures are little more than lambdas with a context.

As an adult, my body is usually about 5 feet (a little more than 1. 5 meters) long.

Without measurement they have little more than subjective observation to determine whether things are on track; measurement is inevitable.

The trouble is that the subject is far too big to fit comfortably into a book a little more than 300 pages long.

They also show quite clearly that computers are seen as a little more than game machines by most young people.

In the Bible, the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper is little more than a prop, given no particular prominence.

Mr Valls has become more popular among the French at large, but at the primary he looks set to win little more than 5% of the vote.

The format had been as good as dead for several years; this announcement was little more than a death certificate.

The format had been as good as dead for several years; this announcement was little more than a death certificate.

Because we've only doubled the population of the Earth since the 1960s -- a little more than doubled.

But investors bidding up the yen expect little more than a minor tweak-not a radical policy change.

To kill a wild pig, which may weigh as much as a man, the Anga construct a trap using little more than sticks, vines, rocks and gravity.

Unfortunately for Alex's legacy, this may mean that he comes to be remembered as little more than a unique curiosity.

A total of 45 people from Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia have died from the H5N1 strain in little more than a year.

But even with the gains in recent days, the yuan has strengthened by only a little more than 1 percent against the dollar since June 19.

BHP spent $2. 2 billion developing Ravensthorpe but the mine operated for little more than a year.

The first censuses did little more than tick off the number of people living in a particular house.

It took a little more than three weeks to complete the installation and testing procedures.

Plan a little more or a little more than the market, socialism and capitalism is not the essential difference.

Moreover, in Auerbach's era the league considered refs to be little more than disposable hirelings, who were paid around $60 per game.

In little more than a decade since, Pioneer has become one of the largest private importers of iron ore into China.

I had been there little more than a week when I set to work in earnest.

Keeping them behind bars does little more than take up scare prison space and incur significant health care costs as they grow older.

Spring after spring, armed with little more than a bottle of water and a healthy stash of yellow #2's, I've entered the classroom.

At the time, the largest screens that laptops had were little more than eight inches across a diagonal.

This means that the contractor will probably have your interest at heart a little more than the professional home inspector would.

He finished the first draft of Freedom on Dec. 17, 2009, a little more than a year later.

A decade ago Fuyuan was little more than a village with a few pigs.

Most studies show that yields under organic cultivation are little more than half what can be achieved elsewhere.

Only a little more than 15, 000 North Koreans have made it to a country of 50m.

There is no fast train or TGV down to Cahors, so the journey from Paris still takes a little more than five hours.

"A little more than kin, and less than kind" . (Hamlet Quote Act I, Scene II).

Liriel, however, came to Xandra at the age of five, when she was little more than a babe.

'You could argue this is a little more than the U. S. guidelines, ' Dr. Sun said.

What was widelypraised as a bold, far-sighted solution to the state's infrastructure problemsis in fact little more than a Band-Aid.

Or does culture , in both its popular and sophisticated forms , represent little more than introspection, escapism and divertimento ?

many everyday goods were in chronic short supply most people could consume little more than what they needed to survive.

It's just raw information, presented in little more than a hyperlinked dictionary, as shown in Figure 1.

At present, China's domestic market share of ABS will be a little more than 10 percent, and the rest are owned by imported products.

The suite is a little more than four square meters, and comes with or without a window.

The proposals that Mr Bush's administration has put forward would do little more than tweak the system.

But beyond Splash's indiscriminate eating habits and love of tennis balls, he was little more than a furry mystery to me.

But even then the burden would be little more than 50% in an economy growing at over 10% in nominal terms.

Market, little more than an agricultural union with two-thirds of its massive budget spent on farm subsidies.

Stearns says recent threats of violence have been little more than rumor and speculation. But he says the situation could intensify.

It's gonna take a little more than digging a few holes.

Surprisingly, the Mayan calendar also took a backseat and it was little more than a back story for most of the film.

Once a thriving night elf settlement, it is now little more than a desolate beach dotted with ruined buildings.

Around the turn of the 20th century, airplanes were little more than oversized box kites.

But those adjustments were often ad hoc explanations that did little more than paste over the contradiction.

Among industrial countries, agriculture accounts for a little more than 3 percent of GDP and approximately 14 percent of exports.

Fears last month over whether the spill could push BP into bankruptcy look like little more than irrational panic now.

A little more than you have thought of me, ' he murmured.

Were America a member, its trade with its eight fellow TPP members would amount to little more than 5% of all its foreign trade.

Galapagos, our wondrous home is now little more than a wretched, black, dark and oily mass.

That's a little more than we were expecting to pay. Could you give us a discount?

But for reasons that remain unclear, the CAT proved to be little more than a short-lived blip on America's sexual radar.

Instead of a welcome guest, she would be little more than a servant.

Migrating Web projects requires little more than changing the project metadata and deployment descriptors to reflect the new version.

The city plans to steer away from land-hungry factories and lure in more bankers who need little more than a desk and computer.

Little more than half the alcohol drunk in the U. K. is now consumed in pubs, down from 88 percent in 1979.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

In truth, its agenda amounts to little more than empty promises and a thirst for power.

Two years ago, a camel cost little more than a goat, which is nothing.

Class is little more than a very simple command-line user interface that enables users to browse local and remote resources.

The Donauturm is 270 meters high. Our restaurant was a little more than halfway to the very top.

Authorities in China have seized fake goods using the 2008 Beijing Olympics logo, a little more than a week after its official unveiling .

A little more than a third of the millionaires say they became wealthy when they hit a certain number.

In Egypt too, Arab socialism soon became little more than a pretext for dictatorship and reckless policies at home and abroad.

For years we had been treating such people as little more than the biological property of their next of kin.

But, for now, analysts expect little more than an extension of the ECB's bank-lending facility -- hardly pulse-pounding.

A little more than half of those companies are run by workers with another primary source of income.

There, vehicles were inching along little more than a third of a mile a day.

With the market pressure on Portugal mounting, however, economists say the ECB intervention will do little more than delay a bailout.

LITTLE more than a century ago, a foreigner could spend his life in Britain without a permit.

Studies of kids and happiness have come up with little more than a mess of conflicting data.

This "consent decree" , large parts of which will expire in November, amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist.

Made of aluminum alloy and measuring a little more than 2. 1 meters in diameter, it retained "secret" classification until 1986.

However, now knowing little more than how to be a criminal, Valjean wakes in the night and steals his silverware.

The greatest age to which a person has lived in our time was only a little more than 113 years.

So far the plan is little more than an experiment, albeit a promising one.

This year is a little more than half over, and already it is one for the climate record books.

With little more than your CMIS server's WSDL you can generate your own client-side API if you are willing to use the Web services binding.

Mr. Combs suffered losses of a little more than 5% in 2008, though that return trounced the overall market's.

Much of the text is little more than a template, which regulators are expected to flesh out.

A so-called limited war will leave little more than a calamitous legacy of human suffering, political and spiritual disillusionment.

One of the largest waves of immigration in our history took place little more than a century ago.

Many introductory computer language books create "hello world" programs which do little more than compile and print a string.

Entries close at midnight London time on Wednesday evening, so you've got a little more than 48 hours.

The residents of these shelters often live in desperate and primitive conditions with little more than a roof over their heads.

As application development has advanced, the X protocol has devolved into little more than an image transport mechanism.

The original standards put the maximum speed of an electric bike at 20 kilometers per hour (a little more than 12 mph).

But even each helping of boiled, baked or mashed potatoes contributed a little more than a half-pound.

'I had little more than three hours of sleep every night because I was just so determined to capture as much as I could. '

Mr Dodd may have little more than a month to get a deal before attention turns elsewhere.

Without understanding Chinese strategic culture, however, all of this is of little more than passing interest.

As it turned out, however, the aunt was little more than a convenient alibi for Mrs Bixby.

All of a sudden, I feel a little more than give up.

I'm not talking about an idle hope that's little more than blind optimism or willful ignorance of the problems we face.

and we shall find the benefit of it amount to little more than nothing.

You use the database as little more than an alternative file system with slightly better isolation characteristics.

Sure, they may ask for a resume, but in many cases, it's little more than a formality.

President Muammer Gaddafi of Libya may soon become the third Arab president to be swept from power in little more than a month.

the clouds form only in a very narrow band a little more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth's surface.

Most fossil specimens are little more than carbon impressions although distinctive shapes are known.

In its early incarnations, JAXP was little more than a thin veneer over SAX and DOM -- and over outdated versions of those APIs, at that.

This involves little more than text messages and occasionally holding hands, but Julia still denies everything about the romance.

Inside the warehouse, under a still smoldering roof, we saw the charred remains of dozens of bodies. Some were little more than skeletons.