Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] more and " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a wonderful hour or more and later Ian Woosnam called for a knighthood for Jacklin . |
| 2 | The waterlogged heaps of wet muck soon became unstable and eventually began to slide downwards , quite suddenly becoming semi-liquid slurries or mudflows , which swept down the sides of the volcano , gathering speed and more and more material the whole time . |
| 3 | Speaking to the Darlington Branch of the Dyslexia Institute Mr Fallon , the town 's MP , said : ‘ Dyslexia is now a widely recognised term and more and more information is available to help those who are dyslexic . ’ |
| 4 | There is a good co-operation between the British police and police forces on the continent because more and more crime — particularly drugs crime — crosses frontiers . |
| 5 | In fact , Marie Hoader tried to account for the negative consequences of unemployment in terms of five things that employment provides in our society , five sorts of experience that more and more , as we are industrialized and as more and more people are involved in working in employment , erm have come to be important and provided via employment , and we talked of two of those earlier — one 's activity and one was time structure — and you 've just raised the issue of feeling that you 're contributing to society in some way , that you 're part of a collective purpose , that you 're not just drawing things out , you 're also doing something useful with your time . |
| 6 | If you are married , or committed to a serious relationship , have one child or more and a home to support , then the hours you work and the amount of travel involved in getting to and from work may limit your options . |
| 7 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 8 | ‘ We needed an international group because more and more of our clients were wanting international services , while it was important to be part of someone strong in financial PR in the City . ’ |
| 9 | If you winced from the blow you might lose three quarters of an inch or more and it was no use arguing about it . |
| 10 | He thought very , very carefully for a minute or more and then picked up his private phone and dialled a number . |
| 11 | Yes , I mean this is the point I 'll be developing later , later in , in , in the lectures , I 'm currently spending a lot of time kind of researching and thinking about this , but i i it 's ultimately the question of genes affect behaviour and more and more I come to the to the view that they probably do so erm through what we call our emotions , that our genes kind of erm guide us to do so and things through various subjective feelings like when we 're hungry , we , we know we 're hungry and it 's a subjective feeling of hunger . |
| 12 | If the cough persists without improvement for a week or more and there is much weakness , tiredness and lack of energy . |
| 13 | If people go to bed and are in bed for a week or more and we do all of that , all that stroking and loving , then when they actually go there 's a relief at them no longer having the pain and the shock . ’ |
| 14 | Typically , the timetable will be suspended for a week or more and pupils will take responsibility for their own Mini-Enterprise , which may be based on producing goods for sale or providing services . |
| 15 | This takes up much of the last week or more and is written out in precise detail . |
| 16 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 17 | Variations include larger reservoirs of 1 litre or more and a heavier version with a longer range fitted with a separate pistol grip and a flexible feed tube that can be used to draw directly from a bulk container . |
| 18 | I scan the papers daily but there is less and less information and more and more detail . |
| 19 | The publisher , traditionally , needs to sell at least a thousand copies of that to be worth even advertising it , but this means that you can print an extra copy whenever you want and this then implies perhaps and even larger and larger growth and more and more specialised information , which only computers can manage , and one hesitates to work out where the end of all this is . |
| 20 | Tourism is a major growth area in the Middle East and more and more people attracted by the prospects of an enhanced salary , hotter climate and better lifestyle , are eager to become part of this development . |
| 21 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 22 | He is a Whip who receives about £35,000 a year or more and he does not have to worry about the daily necessities of life . |
| 23 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 24 | I think it 's a good idea that more and more schools now are having Burns suppers |
| 25 | For the vast majority of the work that we do there is very seldom any criticism , and in actual fact there is mostly a clamour for more activity and more and better work . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ We are battling against an unfair electoral system but more and more people realise that and proportional representation is gaining popularity . ’ |
| 27 | They have worked extremely hard to maintain the service to the customer but more and more problems are now emerging . |
| 28 | But they 're not the only ones , by the way , I 'm also concerned about the fact that more and more young people seem to be in this syndrome and I 've a feeling that that comes down not just to government things , but also to the problems in the family as a whole . |