Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] more [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | None at all were recorded in Worcestershire or Cornwall , although there had been forty or more in Bodmin alone which had been the most generous contributors to the rebuilding of the parish church . |
| 3 | It 's not that I 'm totally assured that this time round I wo n't be quite so foolish , it 's simply that I know it 's possible to progress to that stage beyond ‘ falling in love ’ — if I do n't opt out as soon as he starts to look less like Prince Charming and more like Mr Very Ordinary and Boring . |
| 4 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 5 | Substantial flocks were also recorded elsewhere during the period , for example of 100 or more at Burton ponds , Knepp lake , Barcombe Reservoir , and Piddinghoe pond . |
| 6 | Many of the drinkers questioned felt cheated that they were paying as much or more for nablab products while the brewers paid far less duty ( and practically nothing on alcohol-free products ) than on their normal brews . |
| 7 | of manufacturers expecting to spend as much or more on training in the next 12 months . |
| 8 | Whether it will be better or worse no-one can tell at the moment , but the hands on the reins of administration will be more varied , more democratic and more in tune with the times — at least that 's the theory for this huge volte in the face of what has gone before . |
| 9 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 10 | All those working less than full-time hours ( generally 35 or more per week ) may find themselves barred from pension , profit-sharing and preferential company loan schemes . |
| 11 | The multiplier for manual staff might be unity but it increases with staff level and becomes three or more for management . |
| 12 | Despite the disquiet at the club this year , Mr Stringer still appears more relaxed and more in control than he did when he first took charge in that winter of 1987 . |
| 13 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 14 | Playing to audiences of 20,000 or more in America , England , France , Austria and Italy at the end of last century , Annie could split playing cards in two with a .22 pistol , shoot glass balls out of the air from the back of a galloping horse or over her shoulder using a mirror for sighting . |
| 15 | The Representation of the People Act 1969 extended the franchise to persons aged 18 or more on polling day . |
| 16 | hence such a cubic polynomial has a root in Q. The theorem is not of immediate use in checking polynomials of degree 4 or more for irreducibility . |
| 17 | Today , when reclamation is carried out with the use of expensive mechanical equipment , it is not profitable to start until a strip , 200 m or more in width , is ready . |
| 18 | The most famous ( or notorious ) is the giant squid at 15 m or more in length , but some of the extinct ammonites and nautiloids were of similar dimension , and were the largest shelled animals ever to have lived . |
| 19 | At Chalton , the largest structures measured 9 m or more in length , and are characterised by opposed doorways in the centre of the long sides , flanked by pairs of postholes ( Addyman , Leigh and Hughes 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Arguably , many of the Majority recommendations were the more politically and financially feasible and more in tune with popular feeling at all levels . |
| 21 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 22 | The Pixel Semiconductor Inc unit of Cirrus Logic Inc has introduced the CL-PX0072 Video Window Generator I , a Microsoft Corp Video for Windows-compatible chip that features HiQ8 proprietary colour enhancement technology to provide high-quality picture resolutions ; samples from Cirrus Logic cost $32 in quantities of 10,000 or more with volume planned for the current quarter . |
| 23 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 24 | It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature . |
| 25 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |
| 26 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 27 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 28 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 29 | Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children . |
| 30 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |