Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] less a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 2 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 3 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 4 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " . |
| 9 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |