Example sentences of "[verb] two [coord] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planning involves a series of action steps , such as going to bed earlier than usual and setting an alarm ( or a failsafe system incorporating two or more alarms ! ) . for more on the need for specificity see Action plans on page 1 . |
| 2 | You can hang two or more eggs together on one thread with divider beads between them ( painted macaroni makes a good divider ) . |
| 3 | However , if the clause contains two or more restrictions , the court may hold one unreasonable but still allow reliance on the other , provided that the two are severable . |
| 4 | These have been used retrospectively by Pissarides ( 1982 ) who showed that the percentage of the 18-year-old cohort gaining two or more A-levels had responded to changes in real permanent income and the ratio of expected earnings of manual workers to university graduates . |
| 5 | Figure 6.2 shows these ratios for four levels of education : first , achieving five or more O-levels ; second , gaining two or more A-levels ; third , applying to , and fourth , being accepted for admission to university . |
| 6 | At present Statutory Maternity Leave is available in the UK only if a woman has two or more years of continuous service with her employer ( see also below ) . |
| 7 | However , if the mail message has two or more pages , you can use this field to inspect the remaining pages . |
| 8 | Each man has two or more wives and because adultery on the part of females carries the death sentence , the birth rate is rigorously controlled . |
| 9 | To speak loosely , a causal circumstance does not include two or more links of any one causal line running through it from past to future . |
| 10 | By some mysterious alchemy it seems possible to drink two or more cups of the mellow cappuccino or caffe crema without suffering the jangle of caffeine overload . |
| 11 | If you scored two or more points you should , if you have not already , see your doctor and get further advice from him or her about what you should do to reduce your heart disease and stroke risk . |
| 12 | Injecting frequency was defined as never ( no injecting ) , occasional ( averaging fewer than two injecting episodes a week ) , and frequent ( averaging two or more episodes a week ) . |
| 13 | According to size they can accommodate two or more persons . |
| 14 | : is used to combine two or more numbers from the main schedules in order to represent the separate concepts present in a multi-concept subject . |
| 15 | For instance , schools might make one of the four arts subjects compulsory or might institute modular or combined arts courses to cover two or more of the arts subject . |
| 16 | This is the method used to cross two or more sets of stitches during knitting to form rope-like patterns . |
| 17 | Disagreements between the founder 's ten sons , most of whom have had two or more wives and so lots of their own children , nearly tore the group apart . |
| 18 | Article 5(1) contains further definitions as follows : " a group of connected individuals " , in relation to the party disposing of shares in the company , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a director or manager of the company and , in relation to the party acquiring the shares , means persons each of whom is , or is a close relative of , a person who is to be a director or manager of the company ; " close relation " means a person 's spouse , his children ( including , in Northern Ireland , his adopted children ) and step-children , his parents and step-parents , his brothers and sisters , and his step-brothers and step-sisters and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee or personal representative of any such relative ; and " single individual " includes two or more persons acting in their capacity as the personal representatives of a single individual . |
| 19 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 20 | An alloy is when you 've got two or more metals mixed together . |
| 21 | It is at the core of our proposals that single-person households should pay less than households comprising two or more adults . |
| 22 | It may be possible to identify two or more teaching styles based on different frequencies of use of the activity groups . |
| 23 | Liberal democracy is simply a method of government which requires two or more groups of political leaders to compete for mass electoral endorsement . |
| 24 | It was simply a conversation in which the group was significant only in so far as any communication requires two or more people to support it . |
| 25 | With increased duration of follow up , the number of patients who either did not require any dilatation or needed only one dilatation in six months , increased progressively and there was a simultaneous reduction in the number of patients requiring two or more dilatations . |
| 26 | There is a large and growing number of compounds containing two or more transition metal atoms in different oxidation states . |
| 27 | discount is not enough , given the average income of single person households compared with that of households containing two or more people . |
| 28 | His system would mean that single householders on good incomes would pay much more than houses containing two or more people who , together , had poor incomes . |
| 29 | If we regard the proportions as ’ half and half ’ , it is logical to assume that households containing two or more people should pay 100 per cent. , that the occupants of a house that is empty or not their principal residence should pay 50 per cent. , and that a single occupant — being , as it were , in the middle — should pay 75 per cent . |
| 30 | It does this by a process called dithering which takes two or more colours from the 16 or 256 colour palette available and places them side by side to give the impression of another colour . |