Example sentences of "[adj] or more [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do lists and coordinations ( eg lists of nouns ) tend to occur with two , three or more than three members ? |
| 2 | Synodontis Multipunctatus is a peaceful species , which can be kept either on its own or as a group of three or more if you have a very large tank . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 5 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 8 | The reader of the Chinese text has no way of knowing , from this title , whether China has one or more than one panda reserve . |
| 9 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There were already two grown-up sons from the first marriage ; these sons were twenty or more when Sigmund was born . |
| 12 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 13 | It is a relatively small cake , and so you might like to make a ‘ flock ’ of two or more if there are lots of children to feed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With the exception of a few intervening slabs , the routes are always steep , rarely less than overhanging or more than 25m , on near perfect rock and well equipped with bolts and chains for ‘ moulinette ’ . |