Example sentences of "or less [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 2 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 3 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 4 | Standardised mortality ratios for cardiovascular disease fell from 119 in men who weighed 5.5 pounds ( 2495 g ) or less at birth to 74 in men who weighed more than 8.5 pounds ( 3856 g ) . |
| 5 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 6 | Overall 80% ofmen had a haemoglobin concentration of 12.5 g/dl or less at diagnosis and 75% of women had a concentration of 11.5 g/dl or less . |
| 7 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 8 | At first , Jackson had seemed more or less at ease with her . |
| 9 | It was more or less at eye level , because I was on the floor at the time , and I crawled towards it with a muffled sensation of triumph . |
| 10 | What makes young people more or less at risk ? |
| 11 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 12 | Clara had just been born then , and now , more or less on schedule , Hana was in labour again . |
| 13 | Stubbly was more or less on cue . |
| 14 | So far , China is more or less on course . |
| 15 | Thanks to the volume of work carried out on the Enron project , UK turnover last year was ahead of budget , with net profit being more or less on budget . |
| 16 | I replied somewhat heatedly that I was more or less on duty , visiting men in the hospital . |
| 17 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 18 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 19 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 20 | ( Eligible liabilities are sterling deposits with two years or less to maturity held by UK residents , plus a number of other items . ) |
| 21 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 22 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 23 | Unlike his predecessors , he seems to have got his nobles more or less under control , and had pacified the Highlands ; but , like those predecessors , he found that England was rarely in a mood to be pacified . |
| 24 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 25 | " These problems are now more or less under control , with the mature plants helping to blanket out the weeds , " explains Barbara . |
| 26 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 27 | It was mid-afternoon and Karajan led the Berlin orchestra , more or less without break , through Ein Heldenleben . |
| 28 | We we we know one or two people erm more or less by face , not by name . |
| 29 | This suggests that human beings arrived on Earth more or less by accident , since no special feature marked off the Crustaceans as being ‘ fitter ’ in a Darwinian sense . |
| 30 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |