Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 31 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 32 | Finally , up to one in five heroin users in treatment was regularly or occasionally injecting the drug-15 per cent of those known to the Drugs Council and 20 per cent of those known to the Detoxification Unit , compared to an overall figure of 12 per cent in the first survey . |
| 33 | — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ; |
| 34 | More than one manager has devised a superb presentation only to find that the date was yesterday or the time half an hour earlier . |
| 35 | Doubtful tuning here and there is also a reservation to be found in Nilsson 's Four Last Songs , recorded in 1970 when the Swedish soprano was more or less in pristine form . |
| 36 | – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s . |
| 37 | The factors selected were mean OBS score at time of first assessment , whether the sufferer was singly or doubly incontinent at least once daily , whether he or she engaged in persistent wandering away from home , whether he or she lived alone , and whether he or she had no closely involved informal carer . |
| 38 | Similarly , I suppose , the peace camp was more or less left in peace round there . |
| 39 | She found that , for the RVF , manual reaction times for " same " trials increased with the number of letters presented but , for the LVF , reaction time was more or less constant regardless of the number of letters presented . |
| 40 | At the peak of the Middle Ages , around the year 1200 , Christianity was more or less solidly established as the religion of Europe . |
| 41 | After the first of October nineteen forty nine , however , their political power was more or less secure due to . |
| 42 | The street was more or less deserted . |