Example sentences of "more [conj] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |
| 2 | They thought it normal for Daddy to get them up and dress and breakfast them , before he went down to morning surgery , and for Lucy once she was up to spend ages talking excitedly and gesticulating on the telephone , before consigning them ( with a kiss on the head ) to Nissy while she disappeared to the study to practise , and the house was filled with the cello 's dismal squeaks and groans , which always recovered eventually , into more or less of a tune . |
| 3 | It is not too easy to find , but lies in more or less of a line with Beta and 21(4.5) . |
| 4 | Do professional requirements cover more or less of the curriculum in any given field than they did ten years ago ? |
| 5 | The waxing and waning of the ice sheets lowered and raised sea level as more or less of the water on the earth 's surface was locked up in them . |
| 6 | Now they would pay no more than that on a meal for two . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a proposal , nothing more than that at the moment , Derek from Barnet , good morning . |
| 8 | Sometimes there is more than that to a lynching , as the work of Lino Jose Durrewald showed . |
| 9 | He 's gon na drink more than that throughout the day . |
| 10 | A scattering of maggots or whatever that hits the surface in , say , an 18 inch circle ( which is the least ‘ spread ’ you can hope for ) will spread far more than that by the time the current has had its way with it and it reaches bottom . |
| 11 | It may turn out to earn rather more than that in the semiconductor industry . |
| 12 | Erm I think we need to endorse the action taken by the judicial treasurer and then if we was then to go onto second bits , which is urging the churches to give five percent more than that in the past you could debate that se separately . |
| 13 | It is quite obvious that if all of you are going for the same niche in the marketplace , as is happening increasingly at present , then it will be a highly competitive situation where you will have to rely even more than usual on the superiority of your own skills or technology to bring you through . |
| 14 | ‘ No more than usual in a prison this size , ’ the Governor answered without looking at the other man . |
| 15 | Under the emergency regulations , currently affecting more than two-thirds of the country and 50 per cent of the population , all constitutional guarantees contained in Articles 7 , 9 and 10 of the Constitution were suspended and the army was placed in full control of internal order . |
| 16 | Oceans cover more than two-thirds of the earth 's surface , and in places reach a depth of eleven kilometres . |
| 17 | To pursue that vision Mr Levin is giving up a lot : after Toshiba , ITOCHU and US West , Time Warner is left with just 63% of TWE , which produces more than two-thirds of the group 's cash flow . |
| 18 | In 1951 more than two-thirds of the population lived in the river corridor ( this includes the middle-class Victorian and inter-war suburbs of Jesmond , Tynemouth and Cullercoats ) , whereas by 1981 this proportion had fallen to just over half of a smaller total . |
| 19 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 20 | Rather than follow their British and American counterparts , who fed a property frenzy with mezzanine debt , deep-discount bonds and other financial wheezes , Germany 's more prudent bankers have consistently refused to lend more than two-thirds of the value of a development project . |
| 21 | It is not easy to engage in discussion with someone who regards other opinions as no more than symptomatic of the way a bourgeois intellectual thinks under late capitalism . |
| 22 | Never more than competent as a draughtsman himself , Kempe was adept at selecting and training young designers and craftsmen to carry out schemes under his direction . |
| 23 | The second half of the year witnessed a superficially arcane debate on vodka which touched on the whole question of government finances ( because more than one-third of the state 's revenue derived from its involvement in the vodka trade ) . |
| 24 | Senior scientists comprise more than one-third of the company and are dedicated to creating powerful advanced solutions in computer-aided molecular design . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that more than one-third of the land area of the United Kingdom is covered by these additional restraints . |
| 26 | One recent study ( Jowell and Airey , 1984 ) for example , found that rather more than one-third of the sample described themselves as racially prejudiced . |
| 27 | As in previous years the largest single items of expenditure were debt service , accounting for more than one-third of the budget , and defence spending , accounting for 20 per cent . |
| 28 | More than 1,500 people died in civilian air crashes throughout the world , little more than average for the decade . |
| 29 | When we want to calculate the orbits of Voyager satellites in the space programme Newtonian mechanics is more than accurate for the purpose . |
| 30 | At this point the marginal pound he or she earns from an hour 's work is just more than equal to the value of that hour in watching TV or pottering in the garden . |