Example sentences of "[adj] or more " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 2 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 3 | Thus , the main purpose of identifying these risk factors in clinical practice is to allow the physician to decide which patients will require more prolonged or more potent ulcer treatment . |
| 4 | By contrast , there are few monosyllabic female first names ( Ann , Joan , May ) and many of them are trisyllabic or more ( Katharine , Elizabeth , Amanda ) . |
| 5 | When the Almoravid general sent a token force of twenty mounted warriors to the gates of the city , their arrival caused such consternation that it was believed that there were actually 500 or more . |
| 6 | A pair will produce up to 200 eggs ( though there are reports of 500 or more ) . |
| 7 | The tiger population may number some 500 or more , the largest surviving single population of the 7-8,000 in the world , and the only one which conforms to scientific calculations of the number required to retain the broad genetic base for natural evolution . |
| 8 | Sports centres with excellent pitches and pools have been built but they have either been under used or more often patronized by groups who already had a high participation ratio , especially adult male car-owners . |
| 9 | Strong ales come in a variety of styles and strengths — winter warmers , barley wines , Christmas Ales , Old Ales — with gravities ranging from 1050 to 1100 or more . |
| 10 | Another point to consider is that , these days , it 's very unusual to find a commercial program , especially for Windows , that comes on one disk — some take up eleven or more ! |
| 11 | Make them more stable or more volatile ? |
| 12 | Academics and journalists lend what Terkel terms ‘ overviews ’ , though their contributions seem no less subjective or more privileged than anyone else 's . |
| 13 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 14 | The provision of a basic screening regimen in no way prohibits physicians from recommending more extensive or more frequent examinations if clinically indicated . |
| 15 | Maintaining your new figure has never been simpler or more effective . |
| 16 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 17 | Particularly striking exemplars are the penannular neck ornaments or torcs , the hoops of which were hollow or more often formed of twisted rods or finer wires , having loop terminals decorated by lost-wax casting combined with surface tooling ( fig. 19 ) . |
| 18 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |
| 19 | So , for example , in the current tax year , individuals aged less than 65 may receive £3,445 before paying any tax while those over that age threshold may receive £4,200 , rising to £4,370 for those aged 75 or more . |
| 20 | ‘ Married couples receive an additional allowance of £1,720 , which rises to £2,465 for those aged 65 or more and £2,505 for those aged 75 or more . |
| 21 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 22 | Among those aged 75 or more , women outnumber men by a ratio of nearly 2½ to 1 ( Martin et al . , |
| 23 | Either in that or more likely the following year Earl Hakon was drowned at sea , and Olaf took the opportunity to return to Norway . |
| 24 | The three characteristics were : an OBS score of eight or more , living alone , and without a closely involved informal carer ( only one of the control sample clients still at home at one year possessed all three of these characteristics ) . |
| 25 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 26 | In other words the old offences under ( f ) and ( g ) above now apply to eight or more seated motor cars or goods vehicles 3,500 kg or under and to the other categories of vehicle not mentioned here . |
| 27 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 28 | They breed from mid-May onward , hatching eight or more young in good years but only one , two or none when food is scarce . |
| 29 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 30 | In older age ( 60–75 or more ) there is reasonable concordance between the present study and those of Thomas et al and McGrother et al , but differences with others are considerable . |