Example sentences of "[conj] more [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |
| 2 | Since oestrogen is a potent inhibitor of bone resorption , we investigated changes in calcium metabolism in women with hot flushes. 37 postmenopausal women ( at least 9 months after the last menstrual period ) were divided into groups according to the frequency of hot flushes over 4 weeks : ( A ) subjects without flushes ( 18 ) , and ( B ) with less than 2 ( 7 ) , ( C ) 3–9 ( 6 ) , and ( D ) 10 or more a day ( 6 ) . |
| 3 | The rate is used to calculate the tax charge on beneficial loans to directors and employees earning £8,500 or more a year , including gross expense payments and the value of benefits in kind . |
| 4 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , nearly £300 a year extra . |
| 5 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , that would mean nearly £300 a year extra . |
| 6 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 7 | Savings , the agency thinks , could be $100m or more a year . |
| 8 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 9 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 10 | And with inflation increasing at 20 per cent or more a year it is ridiculous that all tax levies and exemptions are not indexed to the purchasing power of the £ so that inflation itself does not become the most grievous tax-gatherer of all . |
| 11 | The Lee-Enfield had a magazine which held 10 rounds and rapid-action bolt which turned down ; this gave the rifleman a rate of fire of 15 aimed rounds or more a minute . |
| 12 | About 10% of school pupils take two or more A levels , usually in full-time education in school or FE college , between the ages of 17 and 19 . |
| 13 | Figure 11.18 shows the percentages of pupils ( boys and girls taken together ) in each sector gaining three or more A levels ( important for university entry ) , in England and Wales in 1951 and 1981 . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 15 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 16 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 17 | If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP . |
| 18 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 19 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 20 | Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays . |
| 21 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 22 | Income support is available for people of 18 yrs or over whose incomes are below a certain level and who are not working 16hrs or more a week . |
| 23 | In some areas the birth of a child might add a shilling or more a week to the wage , leading to some pessimistic projections of runaway demographic increase , notably by followers of Thomas Malthus whose " Essay on Population " of 1798 was the most important ideological underpinning for the views of those who were beginning to urge a much harsher attitude towards the poor as the cost of their relief surged . |
| 24 | After an hour or more the dancing stops . |
| 25 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 26 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 27 | For stays of four nights or more the hotel invite you to a three course lunch or dinner in their award winning restaurant ( drinks extra ) . |
| 28 | If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn . |
| 29 | If during this period breath hydrogen increased by 100% or more the test was considered abnormal . |
| 30 | The 1922 committee is almost certain to raise to 20 or more the number of MPs needed to sponsor a challenger in future . |