Example sentences of "than a boy " in BNC.
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| 1 | This so impressed the then president of the Canadian branch of the Anglo Jewish Association that he invited the young man , scarcely more than a boy , to be its secretary ; the start of a highly successful and very wide range of business and charitable interests . |
| 2 | The real situation was between the widow and the youngster who was effectively older than a boy , in feeling and reaction at least . |
| 3 | A Japanese boy could now expect to live 75 years , three years longer than a boy born in England or Wales . |
| 4 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 5 | He was small and hard and wild and in some ways more like an animal than a boy . |
| 6 | I brooded constantly over why my being a girl rather than a boy would make my life so different from my brothers ’ . |
| 7 | You were no more than a boy the last time I saw you … twelve , thirteen at the most . |
| 8 | As you say , I was little more than a boy . |
| 9 | He was little more than a boy . |
| 10 | The Mogridge of Mochica was n't much more than a boy . |
| 11 | It is clear enough what was happening : a girl was paid more than a boy on entering the trade and continued to earn more until both were approaching 20 years old , when the male rate drew ahead and suddenly leapfrogged to become double that of the female rate . |
| 12 | Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking : it was no accident , nor was it a question of " natural aptitude " that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy , and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand . |
| 13 | Hardly more than a boy , in fact . |
| 14 | The boy was so small ; more like a child of eight than a boy of fifteen . |
| 15 | And his will was that the slave , the young man who was scarcely more than a boy , should somehow die for his brief moment of rebellion . |
| 16 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 17 | Her companion , ’ the landlord shrugged , ‘ really nothing more than a boy . |
| 18 | I was n't much more than a boy myself . |
| 19 | The Emperor is no more than a boy . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose it 's better for a girl than a boy , ’ said Ken doubtfully , ‘ but all the same you should have asked me . ’ |
| 21 | Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin , the fourth was diminutive , little more than a boy . |
| 22 | The likeness was there , Master Harry 's divination had been marvellously guided ; but he had carved a man , and this , after all , was no more than a boy , not yet grown . |