Example sentences of "at more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DRIVING at more than double the speed limit cost a young Newton Valence woman her driving licence . |
| 2 | Before the elections of 1964 , 1966 , and 1970 , real personal disposable income was rising at more than double its normal rate of growth — so supporting the political business cycle thesis , but Alt suggests that these " short pre-election spurts may not do the government of the day all that much good , and there is no evidence that they do ( at least if short-term enough ) the economy any particular harm " . |
| 3 | You ca n't move at more than about fifteen miles an hour maximum down Hurst Road anyway can you ? |
| 4 | The offence is clearly aimed at more than merely fighting in public . |
| 5 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 6 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 7 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
| 8 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 9 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 10 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 11 | It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time . |
| 12 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 13 | The principal objective of the budget was to hold the public deficit for 1990 at more or less the same level in absolute terms as for 1989 , thereby reducing it from 11 per cent to 10.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 14 | Amaranth fell into a gentle sleep at more or less the same time as did the bulk of Sir Teddy Taylor 's conference audience . |
| 15 | Partly this was a matter of timing : both approaches penetrated the mainstream of macroeconomics at more or less the same time . |
| 16 | The work which our consulting engineers have done in conjunction with engineers from York City Council , show in very broad terms , that the existing radial routes within the Greater York area , were all in the period around about nineteen ninety one , all operating at more or less , design capacity . |