Example sentences of "[art] [adj] or more " in BNC.
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| 31 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 32 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 33 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 34 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 35 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 36 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 37 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 38 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 39 | There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers . |
| 40 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 41 | This investigation is therefore intended to be both a serious historical research project based on a dozen or more geographically dispersed archives and a contribution to the wider understanding of a society at the centre of much attention but little insight . |
| 42 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 43 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 44 | Any mortgage increase undertaken for personal reasons ( for example , to obtain capital , maximise tax allowances ) or purely as a result of purchasing a larger or more desirable property will not qualify for assistance . |
| 45 | There is perhaps no phase in the moral history of mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than this ascetic epidemic . |
| 46 | NO HORSE was ever given a better or more fitting name than Nijinsky and few have paid their namesake more graceful compliments . |
| 47 | Some organisations find that supporting libel actions on behalf of their members is politically convenient because it assures them a better or more polite press : the Police Federation is one example . |
| 48 | It was a grand or more each time . |
| 49 | If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated . |
| 50 | If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated . |
| 51 | It is priced at $95 in quantities of a thousand or more . |
| 52 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 53 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
| 54 | Several species of bee-eater nest in colonies a thousand or more strong . |
| 55 | Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more . |
| 56 | Any hit scored against the caster by an ordinary weapon is deflected on the D6 roll of a 3 or more . |
| 57 | If hit by a magic weapon , the Crystal Cloak is immediately dispelled but no damage is suffered from that hit and the magic weapon which inflicted the hit will be destroyed on the D6 roll of a 3 or more . |
| 58 | My spontaneous recoil from awareness of others ' troubles ( or of future danger to myself ) is no less or more natural than my impulse to sympathy or cruelty ( or to avoid or irrationally court danger ) when I do become aware ; it is as pointless to ask whether human nature is selfish or unselfish as whether it is improvident or far-sighted . |
| 59 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
| 60 | Usual call a single or more often triple ‘ pheet ’ , closely resembling Rock Pipit ( p. 211 ) and quite distinct from Tree Pipit 's rather loud harsh ‘ teez ’ , which is more like Yellow Wagtail ( p 213 ) . |