Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] or [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 2 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 3 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 4 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 5 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 6 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 7 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 8 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 9 | This was more or less the view of the headmaster . |
| 10 | He was more or less an alcoholic before he was 20 . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |