Example sentences of "more [conj] less the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 2 | An American Congregationalist , for example , saw no possibility of uniting with Rome and every reason for not uniting with Rome — let us join the Churches which teach more or less the truth , not the Churches which do not . |
| 3 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 4 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 5 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 6 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 7 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
| 8 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 9 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 10 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 11 | It appears to be aimed squarely at what the Americans would call a ‘ resort diver ’ , rather than someone like me who dives several times a week in more or less the same areas . |
| 12 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
| 13 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 14 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 15 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 16 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 17 | The Release control performs more or less the reverse of the Attack rotary , adjusting the time for the signal gain to fall back to the level set by the Range control . |
| 18 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
| 19 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 20 | Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower . |
| 21 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 22 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 23 | Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same . |
| 24 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 25 | Those are the more or less the five variations on a theme . |
| 26 | It should be remembered , however , that the great majority of inland sewage works themselves ultimately discharge their treated effluents to open watercourses , subject to more or less the same kinds of constraint as other dischargers . |
| 27 | It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time . |
| 28 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 29 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 30 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |