Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] more in " in BNC.
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| 1 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 2 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 3 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 4 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 5 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 6 | The domes are not hemispherical but spheroidal in shape and are elongated towards the top ; the pendentives are also elongated and more in the form of squinches . |
| 7 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 8 | Playing to audiences of 20,000 or more in America , England , France , Austria and Italy at the end of last century , Annie could split playing cards in two with a .22 pistol , shoot glass balls out of the air from the back of a galloping horse or over her shoulder using a mirror for sighting . |
| 9 | The most famous ( or notorious ) is the giant squid at 15 m or more in length , but some of the extinct ammonites and nautiloids were of similar dimension , and were the largest shelled animals ever to have lived . |
| 10 | At Chalton , the largest structures measured 9 m or more in length , and are characterised by opposed doorways in the centre of the long sides , flanked by pairs of postholes ( Addyman , Leigh and Hughes 1972 ) . |
| 11 | Today , when reclamation is carried out with the use of expensive mechanical equipment , it is not profitable to start until a strip , 200 m or more in width , is ready . |
| 12 | Arguably , many of the Majority recommendations were the more politically and financially feasible and more in tune with popular feeling at all levels . |
| 13 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 14 | Even TLS , which momentously abandoned the anonymity of its book-reviews in 1974 under the editorship of John Gross , is cosmopolitan and more-than-literary in its range ; and its newer rival the London Review of Books , begun in 1979 with Karl Miller as editor , was a fortnightly avowedly conducted in imitation of the New York Review of Books : both of them , as it happens , Anglo-American and more in their choice of authors and topics . |
| 15 | Michael Slater then reaffirmed his current form with 64 his seventh score of 50 or more in 10 innings . |
| 16 | He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ . |
| 17 | As we perceive more and more this equal spirit in all things , we pass into that equality of the spirit ; as we dwell more and more in this universal spirit , we become universal beings ; as we grow more and more aware of this eternal , we put on our eternity and are for ever . |
| 18 | As the state had come to intervene more and more in the field of welfare provision it fed the ethic of equality and broke down the constraining check of deference ( of poor people in their place ) , so itself contributing to a growing lobby for " more " and " better " public provision . |
| 19 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |
| 20 | He acknowledged that ‘ the war is now moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ‘ ideals ’ ' . |
| 21 | Since 1948 numbers at Leasam reached a peak of 63 nests in 1950 , declined to an all-time low of five in 1963 , but have since recovered steadily ; the 1970 figure was 30 , and there were 23 or more in 1975 . |
| 22 | If you were aged 40 or more in 1978 , multiply by the number of years before you will be 60 , the state retirement age . |
| 23 | Back in Moose Jaw , busy with newspaper and radio work , it was not long before I was engaged in preparing and delivering a series of illustrated talks on musical appreciation on Wednesday evenings to audiences of 900 or more in the public auditorium of the Technical School . |
| 24 | There seems to have been a windmill for practically every village and sometimes two or more in the market towns . |
| 25 | One could then find out what else was available on emigration , or on Cornish tin-miners , or on southern Wisconsin , or the nineteenth century , or any permutation of two or more in relation to other topics , such as the design of houses or the techniques of mining , or at another level of student understanding , or another format entirely . |
| 26 | The basic tax would assume there were two or more in each household . |
| 27 | The machineheads on this guitar are copies of big-buttoned chrome Schallers , and though they work well enough , they could be better finished , and some players might prefer something subtler and more in keeping with the general style . |
| 28 | The increased number of pensioners in the top half of the income distribution is the result of pensioners ' average net incomes rising by a third or more in real terms because of the policies of the Government . |
| 29 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |