Example sentences of "[noun sg] more [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 2 | It was a national union , but it was a crime more or less with some bosses to belong to a trade union . |
| 3 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 4 | its the same in all jobs , look at the banks how they 've had to cut down on staff , computers have just totally took over , I mean every , every area of work more or less its been done away with by computers |
| 5 | not a little market country town , village more or less . |
| 6 | I suppose a job more or less was always secure at that time , aha . |
| 7 | Just say right I 'll cash , take cash and you and they will send you a cheque in the post more or less . |
| 8 | National , a forty horse race more or less is n't it , thirty |
| 9 | last year 's exam , they er seems to be exactly the same syllabus more or less , yeah . |
| 10 | I had an experience with a bike when I was very small a girl up the road was given a bike and I had quite quietly learnt how to ride a bike more or less . |
| 11 | Well we know we 've changed the resistance so did we make the resistance more or less ? |
| 12 | Last year , you 'll remember , we had to absorb , in fact in the Tussauds group , about three quarters of a million er , pounds on the increase in V A T and that was a blow to us at the beginning of the season , you remember it was the budget more or less this time last year . |
| 13 | Well that 's two that 's a word with two meanings that 's now just completely out of use more or less . |
| 14 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 15 | He 'll want to be up until you go to bed more or less . |
| 16 | We certainly were like being in the army more or less , and er there was the head servants and erm the under servants , you know ? |
| 17 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 18 | Right , okay , so , let's work our way rest of the roll more or less |
| 19 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 20 | But , they wanted written quotes for a justification more or less . |
| 21 | Well no , that was another thing more or less as I was coming out the door they 'd got the news thing on and this was Australia the new prime minister , I do n't know his name , he 's running down I did n't hear it properly but I heard the gist of it , erm and it |
| 22 | I think I will cos I 'm pissed off , I tell you what , I mean I think , you 've been alright throughout your school more or less have n't ya ? |
| 23 | Just to help but erm yes everybody was in the same position more or less but erm and yet they used to help in a s own little way . |
| 24 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 25 | And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in . |