Example sentences of "[conj] more [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can add £100 or more to the cost of the printer . |
| 2 | Most of the pilots were unconcerned if they were five feet or more to the side on their first attempts . |
| 3 | For symptom scores a significant increase was defined as a rise in score of two points or more over the score at euglycaemia , again for two or more consecutive readings . |
| 4 | There was probably a space eighteen inches deep or more between the roof of the car and that of the tunnel . |
| 5 | Because of the rigidity of the lithosphere , down-flexure may extend for 150km or more beyond the area of sediment loading . |
| 6 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 7 | Barrett 's oesophagus was diagnosed if the columnar mucosa extended 3 cm or more into the oesophagus above the gastro-oesophageal junction . |
| 8 | But in most circumstances , the focus will tend to be either more on the maintenance of social relations , or more on the conveying of information clearly , concisely and unambiguously . |
| 9 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 10 | Introduced by the Chancellor in the 1990 Budget , this scheme allows individuals to make single gifts to charities of£400 or more with the benefit of tax relief . |
| 11 | And Financial Assurance ( 081–367 6000 ) was paying 8.05% on £5,000 or more for a period of four years . |
| 12 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 13 | A strain was defined as an abrupt rise in gastric pressure of 5 mm Hg or more above the baseline for two or more seconds , with a temporally associated disturbance of oesophageal body pressure . |
| 14 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 15 | Behind the first line of colonists is a second , and a third , and so on , some families being 10 km or more from the road along a muddy footpath . |
| 16 | In 1991 the UK current account deficit was a little over £6 billion and is expected to double in size to £12 billion or more by the end of 1992 . |
| 17 | The lesbian and gay issue featured prominently in the Tory propaganda war against the GLC , although more on the level of rumour and innuendo than on the public level . |
| 18 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 19 | The increasing affluence of the rural population wrought by the urban middle-class exodus has tended to mask the continuing and severe pockets of poverty which exist in the countryside and has led the ‘ problem ’ of rural housing to be regarded less as a problem of social welfare and more as an issue concerning land use planning and countryside preservation . |
| 20 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 21 | In Britain support for families has focused less on parent education and teaching parenting skills and more on a range of informal support services ( De'Ath , 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a certain amount of dandruff on the shirt collar and more on the collar of the jacket . |
| 23 | Purity workers developed their own re-reading of the Darwinist debate , though they placed less stress on integrating the two systems and more on the subordination of science to the dictates of morality . |
| 24 | He thus put less emphasis on military drill and weapons training and more on the mastering of the legal and technical aspects of police duties . |
| 25 | As the life of the city began , haltingly , to achieve some simple routine , Nicholas spent his time more and more on the business of medicine . |
| 26 | A harsh restructuring of basic industries , particularly steel and shipbuilding , took place under the Socialists ' rule , although it relied less than in Britain on the power of the ‘ market ’ and more on the intervention of the state . |
| 27 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 28 | Like Maurice , with whom they had some affinities , Nevin and Schaff had a horror of party-spirit and sectarianism , and also of the individualism they found deeply entrenched in much American Protestantism , especially in the revivalist movements which came more and more to the fore through the nineteenth century . |
| 29 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 30 | With the possible exception of Louis Malle , none of that generation of French movie-makers was too happy with more grandiose material : sitting through some of Doniol-Valcroze 's later films , one longed more and more for the simplicity of that one . |