Example sentences of "[conj] more in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25pc of mortgages outstanding , and the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 2 | ‘ Whilst tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25 per cent of mortgages outstanding , and at the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear . |
| 3 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A draw could suffice for Barcelona , but only assuming that Sparta Prague do not beat Dynamo by four goals or more in Kiev . |
| 6 | A recent DES survey , for example , shows that little more than 400 further education teachers were seconded by their local authority to courses of one year or more in January 1981 . |
| 7 | The Panel will not normally grant its consent where the partial offer is for 30 per cent or more in circumstances where the offeror or its concert parties have acquired , selectively or in significant numbers , shares in the target during the previous 12 months ( or at any time after the offer was reasonably in contemplation ) ( Rule 36.2 ) . |
| 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 amount of local news varied from one-third in metropolitan papers ( Birmingham Post , Yorkshire Post ) to 60 per cent or more in East Anglia and the West Country . |
| 10 | He did not after all suggest passing conduct of the investigation over to Duroc 's police , which suggested less confidence in them , or more in Thiercelin , than the latter had anticipated . |
| 11 | He took long holidays , habitually spending a winter month in Switzerland and a summer month or more in France or Italy . |
| 12 | They are fifteen acres or more in size ; they are understocked — compared with other waters ; and there is an abundance of natural food . |
| 13 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 14 | A line of watchfires stretched away into the night , the nearest heaped into a massive cone , twelve feet or more in height , furiously ablaze , devouring the chill moisture from the night air . |
| 15 | We can easily lose an inch or more in height as we go about our normal daily activities . |
| 16 | Its branches fork from an implanted bud just above ground level and normally make 2–4ft ( 0.6–1.2m ) high , although — and this has to be said — too often encouraged by incorrect and only partial pruning that permits new growth to break not from near ground level but from 1ft ( 0.3m ) , 2ft ( 0.6m ) , or even higher , they are frequently to be seen consisting of younger bloom bearing growth on top of old barky stems , the whole reaching 5ft ( 1.5m ) , even 6ft ( 1.8m ) , or more in height . |
| 17 | This unit is separated from the fields of ridge and furrow all around the village by a break of slope or change of level of I metre ( 39 in ) or more in height . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Most spectacular are the sea scorpions ( eurypterids ) , which include arthropods as large as any that have lived ( two.metres or more in length ) . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | Any goldfish 8 cm ( 3 in ) or more in length should be capable of breeding . |
| 22 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A complimentary ticket ( subject to availability ) for the Caracalla open air theatre for all guests staying 5 nights or more in August . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Championship series events , tournaments offering £625,000 or more in prize money , can not offer appearance fees but are guaranteed six top-10 players . |
| 27 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 28 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 29 | She also questions the usefulness of looking only at those who are six months or more in arrears . |
| 30 | At 31 January , 1993 , the number of mortgages where payments were 12 months or more in arrears had risen 24 per cent to 22,486 , representing 0.51 per cent of mortgage balances . |