Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 2 | And house burglaries and car thefts account for more than half all crimes reported . |
| 3 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 4 | What young mothers suffer from more than almost anything else is having constant responsibility for their children . |
| 5 | But while a non-linguistic preference or bias might explain why the meaning of more appears to be acquired before that of less , there still appears to be some violation of the principle of Contrast when children respond to more and less as if their meanings were identical . |