Example sentences of "or less [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd dealt more or less with the small firms even to the the extent of collecting dues . |
| 2 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 3 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 4 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 5 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 6 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 7 | If overt collusion is not permitted , then firms may be able to replicate its effect via tacit collusion ( Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 ) , which may take the form of ‘ conscious parallelism ’ with firms making identical price changes more or less at the same time . |
| 8 | More or less on the same lines having a point of view and putting it across without wavering , do n't erm |
| 9 | but they 've changed now , they 're more or less on the same basis as the U R C |
| 10 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , for the traditional printing and graphic arts industries , the desktop publishing ‘ revolution ’ has taken place largely outside their control and has placed the capability to generate complex artwork directly in the hands of anyone with access to a computer and around £1,000 or less for the necessary software . |
| 12 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 13 | During the 15 years since Younger reported , legislation more or less along the suggested lines has followed in two of the areas where it was recommended — the 1975 Consumer Credit Act , with the establishment of the Office of Fair Trading , and the 1984 Data Protection Act , with the establishment of a Data Protection Registrar . |
| 14 | ( In his reply , Karajan pointed out that as two men had died whilst conducting Tristan und Isolde , both more or less in the same place in the score , it was perhaps worth sponsoring some medical research into the subject . ) |
| 15 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 16 | More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety . |
| 17 | All this time , it must be realised , the fluviatile , near-shore and offshore environmental belts have remained more or less in the same position . |
| 18 | Well it 's been a discussion — if we can put it that way that 's been going on more or less throughout the nineteen eighties |
| 19 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 20 | Pritchard and one corporal then nipped back across the open roadway to drop a 10lb charge between two tugs moored in the basin , and their dash back to the hut , a mere 60 yards or less from the approaching enemy , was achieved without mishap . |
| 21 | As indicated above , most of the information which has been gathered on Roman Rochester concerns the defences , which have now been identified more or less round the whole circuit , and which enclose an area of some 9.5 ha ( 23 acres ) . |