Example sentences of "[conj] more [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can add £100 or more to the cost of the printer . |
| 2 | Most of the pilots were unconcerned if they were five feet or more to the side on their first attempts . |
| 3 | Yet all around there is no-one listening , or more to the point reacting . |
| 4 | So far the ‘ live ’ forays of this ‘ grunge circus ’ ( sick , or more to the point sick ) have resulted in bans by outraged councillors in Portsmouth and Bristol and concerned universities in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | For symptom scores a significant increase was defined as a rise in score of two points or more over the score at euglycaemia , again for two or more consecutive readings . |
| 6 | There was probably a space eighteen inches deep or more between the roof of the car and that of the tunnel . |
| 7 | Because of the rigidity of the lithosphere , down-flexure may extend for 150km or more beyond the area of sediment loading . |
| 8 | Often a solicitor will know as much or more about the history of local land as anyone . |
| 9 | Barrett 's oesophagus was diagnosed if the columnar mucosa extended 3 cm or more into the oesophagus above the gastro-oesophageal junction . |
| 10 | ‘ Even so ’ , said W.R. Cornish and G. de N. Clark in their Law and Society in England 1750–1950 , ‘ there was a growing feeling that a system which sent 10,000 or so debtors into prisons each year ( a quarter or more on the mesne process ) was too expensive , too indiscriminate , too open to abuse and overweening pressure . ’ |
| 11 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 12 | But in most circumstances , the focus will tend to be either more on the maintenance of social relations , or more on the conveying of information clearly , concisely and unambiguously . |
| 13 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 14 | Introduced by the Chancellor in the 1990 Budget , this scheme allows individuals to make single gifts to charities of£400 or more with the benefit of tax relief . |
| 15 | If the CFTC wins its case , its charges could result in fines of $1m or more for the exchange . |
| 16 | In politics he is that which of all things least resembles a democrat — an aristocratic republican who thinks ‘ nothing more agreeable to the order of nature or more for the interest of mankind than that the less should yield to the greater , not in numbers but in wisdom and virtue ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd asked about your car , and I told you that it could take a week or more for the garage to locate the part they needed . ’ |
| 18 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 19 | A paraboloid can be used therefore as a mirror in telescopes to focus a maximum of light from a distant star or galaxy at a viewing point that can be some ten metres or more above the mirror . |
| 20 | A strain was defined as an abrupt rise in gastric pressure of 5 mm Hg or more above the baseline for two or more seconds , with a temporally associated disturbance of oesophageal body pressure . |
| 21 | Woolly monkeys live very largely on leaves and they spend hours every day sitting high in the canopy , a hundred feet or more above the ground , plucking leaves and cramming them into their mouths . |
| 22 | Lift the kite by the attachment ring , let it hang upside down , and the rear , or trailing part of the kite should ‘ dangle ’ at an angle of 15 degrees or more along the spine . |
| 23 | Psychics describe the aura as a rainbow emanation radiating half a metre or more around the body , more or less ovoid in shape . |
| 24 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 25 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 26 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 27 | Since 1952 , when the New Hampshire election was first seriously contested , no President had been re-elected after a challenger in his party had scored 35 per cent or more in the state 's primary . |
| 28 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 29 | A significant deterioration in cognitive function was defined as two or more consecutive increments of 5% or more in the mean time taken for a correct response and of 2% or more in the error rate with the last of the five euglycaemic test scores used as baseline . |
| 30 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |