Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] less [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 3 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 4 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 5 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 6 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 7 | it was just more or less They they certainly would n't have food or anything like that I think it was just more or less the supplier or That would be |
| 8 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 9 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 10 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |
| 11 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 12 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
| 13 | No well more or less the branches had the opportunity to send in resolutions to the national agreement which were dealt with at conference . |
| 14 | Of the situation regarding museums , Mr Sekera explained , ‘ Since 1989 state support has been nominally more or less the same after allowing for inflation . |
| 15 | So , too , if a man teaches his parrot to slander anyone , that is neither more nor less the ordinary tort of defamation than if he prefers to say it with his own tongue rather than with the parrot 's . |