Example sentences of "more [conj] less [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days
2 According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’
3 You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there .
4 able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ;
5 Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather .
6 Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production .
7 We we we know one or two people erm more or less by face , not by name .
8 No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch .
9 And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder !
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