Example sentences of "or more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or more than two . |
| 32 | Obviously this is a coarse instrument and at best can only reveal major features and is quite hopeless when there is a terrace or more than one terrace between each pair of contours . |
| 33 | A company 's first accounting reference period must be a period of not less than six months or more than 18 months beginning with the date of its incorporation and ending with its accounting reference date . |
| 34 | This allows the user to list a number of programs which will fill up a complete disk , or more than one disk . |
| 35 | By the year 2020 there will be about 8,100 million , and by 2100 perhaps 11,300 million , or more than twice present levels . |
| 36 | The Latin American epidemic [ see pp. 38002 ; 38094 ; 38218 ] accounted for 251,568 cases , or more than 80 per cent of the total , with some 2,600 deaths . |
| 37 | Particular controversy surrounded the disability scheme , known as WAO , under which 900,000 people ( or more than twice the number of unemployed ) , who were classified as too disabled to work , received 70 per cent of their last salary until they qualified for receipt of the state pension at 65 . |
| 38 | Or more than a few times actually . |
| 39 | Articles are research reports whose conclusions are of general interest and which are sufficiently rounded to be a substantial advance in understanding , They should not have more than 3,000 words ow text ( not including figure legends ) or more than six display items and should not occupy more than five pages of Nature . |
| 40 | The duration of the nadir could only be graded into coarse divisions of less than one second , one to two seconds , or more than two seconds as the paper speed at which the recordings were made did not allow greater accuracy . |
| 41 | We extended the range of indications of the Munich group , and performed extracorporeal lithotripsy combined with oral bile acid dissolution in a group of patients with four or more than 25 radiolucent stones . |
| 42 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 43 | All such offers of Shares shall be made by notice in writing and every such offer shall limit a time ( not being less than twenty-one days or more than forty-two days ) within which the offer must be accepted or , in default , will be deemed to have been declined . |
| 44 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 45 | And librarians depends on whether you think there 's one or more than one , and it 's not clear , in the sense as you say . |
| 46 | In the 2 following examples , the program would drop through to the error handling part of the program if " choice " or " B-46 " was less than 1 or more than 3 . |
| 47 | Another problem is that it is difficult in some cases to know whether a word has one , or more than one , suffix ( e.g. should we analyse ‘ personality ’ , from the point of view of stress assignment , as + or as + + ? ) . |
| 48 | What half of it or more than half or ? |
| 49 | It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow . |
| 50 | Clough , in fact , will become the 13th player Souness has purchased for £1m or more since he took over at Rangers in April 1986 . |
| 51 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 52 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 53 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 54 | Even when there is a will , it will be six months or more before the beneficiaries have what is due to them . |
| 55 | The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’ |
| 56 | To start again from scratch in the USA would mean that it would be five years or more before he had any hope of receiving his doctorate , but in England , with his early research experience behind him , he could complete the degree sooner . |
| 57 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 58 | This raised the limits before which tax on wealth transfers were paid , and abolished taxes on gifts made ten years or more before someone died . |
| 59 | It is often claimed that the government of many European States in the generation or more before the French Revolution is distinguished from earlier practice by the existence of something called ‘ Enlightened Despotism ’ . |
| 60 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |