Example sentences of "the [adj] or more " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that time they have been selectively-bred throughout the world to produce the 100 or more different varieties that are available today . |
| 2 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 3 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 4 | There , four- and even five-year rotations , with only short grass leys between to restore soil structure and fertility , are quite normal on the ploughable land ; permanent grass or long leys are confined to the steeper or more difficult fields . |
| 5 | If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others . |
| 6 | But no planning regulation may be passed , no law affecting the education of the young or the use of the highway , and so on , which will make it easier to realize one conception of the good or more difficult to pursue another . |
| 7 | In such circumstances what could Wilson do but offer help to the 5,000 or more German seamen taken ashore from British , German and other vessels on the outbreak of war who were unemployed , destitute and ultimately destined for internment camps ? |
| 8 | Unless the original is crisp and clear the copies will lose definition , the smaller or more delicate the typeface , the worse the problem . |
| 9 | Why then the desperate or more generally pessimistic nature of the art they made ? |
| 10 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 11 | The justice will then either form one of the opinions set out in subsection ( 5 ) , and if he does so , go on to decide whether to remand the defendant in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , or if the justice feels unable to form one of the opinions set out in the subsection , he will order the defendant to be released on bail on the same terms as were originally imposed . |
| 12 | What it provides is that a company proposing to allot equity securities shall not allot them to any person unless it has first offered , on the same or more favourable terms , to each person who holds relevant shares or relevant employee shares , a proportion of those equity securities which is as nearly as practicable equal to his existing proportion in nominal value of his aggregate holdings of relevant shares and relevant employee shares . |
| 13 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | At first sight the outcome may seem to depend on which of the combatants is the stronger or more skilled . |
| 15 | We have an extremely flexible timetable in S6 and we are always pleased to welcome pupils from other schools who join the 130 or more Heriot pupils who stay on to Sixth Year . |
| 16 | Then the authority has to decide for one of the two or more acceptable options . |
| 17 | ( b ) less than the difference between the total votes of the two or more continuing candidates credited at that stage of the count with the lowest recorded total number of votes and the candidate next above such candidates " . |
| 18 | On the success or failure of this part of the operation would depend the lives of the hundred or more ordinary inmates of the building , because whether or not Control was successfully captured , phase three , an all-out assault by the remainder of Springfield 's troops would be launched . |
| 19 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 20 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 21 | This is half the typical findings for France , and far less than the third or more often reported from eastern Europe or from Japan in the same centuries . |
| 22 | Only the bolder or more totally disillusioned parents braved his forthright opinions of their sons and heirs . |