Example sentences of "[conj] less in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 2 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 3 | A cat and the occasional use of warfarin keep the rats and mice more or less in check . |
| 4 | Half the nine cantarists in Coventry had £2 or less in goods , which , although numbers generally are hardly sufficient to average , was typical of their condition . |
| 5 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 6 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 7 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 8 | According to Booth 8.4 per cent of the people of London lived in the worst condition of being ‘ at all times more or less in want ’ , ‘ ill-nourished and poorly clad ’ . |
| 9 | There was no central heating , only a collection of electric and oil and gas heaters , imported by tenants or discovered more or less in working order in the Handwork Room where all such things were stowed . |
| 10 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 11 | Well it 's more or less in hand , yeah . |
| 12 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 13 | Usually 30cm ( 12 inches ) or less in garden ponds . |
| 14 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 15 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 16 | You may be maintaining your profits more or less in line with inflation , and hence giving a spurious impression of growth . |
| 17 | M46 and M47 are close together , more or less in line with Beta Canis Majoris and Sirius ; they are not spectacular , but are easy to locate . |
| 18 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 19 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 20 | Assume first that I 2 is one track or less in extent . |
| 21 | The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place . |
| 22 | She was quite mature in her answers , and as you will see from Document A , sir , the Visitor got the impression — we have to rely on their experience in this sort of judgement — ; that she was more or less in command of the situation and had gained poise and experience from it and that a second traumatic removal from what in fact was a secure home for her would at this stage do more harm than good , especially as the relationship between the girl and her father was not good . |
| 23 | In 52 patients , the stones were 10 mm or less in diameter and were removed whole without fragmentation . |
| 24 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in colleges and universities . |
| 25 | Some politicians believe the public would prefer to pay a few pounds more council tax and less in insurance |
| 26 | But dividing up the existing budget to reflect new priorities meant giving more in some areas and less in others . |
| 27 | Pupils sitting GCSEs will find more of their mark concentrated in a final exam and less in course work . |
| 28 | Radical reform of initial teacher training will also mean all primary school student teachers must spend far more time in the classroom and less in college . |
| 29 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |
| 30 | At that time women were generally regarded as economically dependent on their husbands and less in need of an independent source of income in retirement . |