Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] more [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | And there certainly was cream and more for tea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | of manufacturers expecting to spend as much or more on training in the next 12 months . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The multiplier for manual staff might be unity but it increases with staff level and becomes three or more for management . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He thought that this was ‘ kinder , more humane and more in keeping with informed medical opinion . ’ |
| 11 | The Representation of the People Act 1969 extended the franchise to persons aged 18 or more on polling day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Arguably , many of the Majority recommendations were the more politically and financially feasible and more in tune with popular feeling at all levels . |
| 17 | GIST teachers were slightly less traditional and more in favour of equality of the sexes than other teachers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As time went by , Mr Utterson became calmer and more at peace with himself . |
| 23 | ( From overseas enclose an International Reply Coupon — two or more for AIRMAIL replies ) . |
| 24 | ( From overseas enclose an International Reply Coupon , two or more for AIRMAIL replies ) . |
| 25 | ( From overseas enclose an International Reply Coupon — two or more for AIRMAIL replies ) . |
| 26 | c ) Receipt of your order on behalf of the operator of your choice will be acknowledged if you so request but please enclose the appropriate postage ( from overseas enclose an International Reply Coupon , two or more for AIRMAIL replies ) . |
| 27 | One could then find out what else was available on emigration , or on Cornish tin-miners , or on southern Wisconsin , or the nineteenth century , or any permutation of two or more in relation to other topics , such as the design of houses or the techniques of mining , or at another level of student understanding , or another format entirely . |
| 28 | The machineheads on this guitar are copies of big-buttoned chrome Schallers , and though they work well enough , they could be better finished , and some players might prefer something subtler and more in keeping with the general style . |
| 29 | New York , they say , is the great example of the Democratic Welfare State ; a million and more on welfare , hospitals in chaos , 2,000 people murdered each year , the nation 's highest concentration of Aids sufferers , kids shooting kids in the schools , and all in return for the highest levels of tax in the United States . |
| 30 | In on large study , the perinatal mortality risk increased by 20 per cent for the infants of smokers of less than 20 per day and by 35 per cent for smokers of 20 or more per day , compared with that of non-smokers. ( 5 ) The risk is greater in women who are poor , anaemic or have had several children . |