Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 2 | Which is slightly more than some people do with their money . |
| 3 | It gives me great pleasure to announce that that would mean Cherwell District Council would have to disappear as well , and that would be another blip off the horizon erm but that what would happen you would therefore have a smaller authority , who would then become the Education Authority , and that would be would have to be , I think , somewhere in between the current District Council size in Cherwell or the Vale , of what about a hundred thousand , and the present county , which is rather more than half a million . |
| 4 | I think I 've got five minutes which is probably more than some of you delegates have got so I 'll keep it fairly short and sweet . |
| 5 | The transfer of responsibility for all non-university institutions of higher and further education to the Secretary of State for Wales which is now more than four years old seems to have created no major administrative problems . |
| 6 | Nevertheless this is , as she says , a way of thinking about international politics which is still more or less in its infancy . |
| 7 | I , it , it was interesting actually because I mean Nor Northallerton is the e is the office at risk in a sense because when they get a fourth of anything , theirs is relatively more and ours is relatively less . |
| 8 | I sometimes ( no , often ) feel that you are much more than eighteen months older than me . |
| 9 | Because part of the condition of your insurance policy in some cases , if you 're away more than X number of days , the mains should be switched off . |
| 10 | On each one there were between 8 and 22 students who were all more or less bilingual — or even trilingual — ( and biliterate ) in English and either Panjabi , Urdu , Bengali , Gujurati , Vietnamese , Polish , Spanish or Italian . |
| 11 | By 1947–8 you were all more or less back in business — Furtwängler , Böhm , Knappertsbusch , and others . |
| 12 | All recruitment stopped in mid-1990 and we are now more than 100 officers below strength . |
| 13 | Oh yeah n no we 're just more or less |
| 14 | . Well I think we 're all more or less there by now . |
| 15 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind that there are probably more than 5,000 warehouses of this kind throughout the world holding very large quantities of stock between them this suggests that the risk of them catching fire is very small ; although the individual loss if one were to catch fire is considerable . |
| 17 | It has been stated in this document that only two small fires have occurred in high-bay warehouses over 10 metres high of which there are probably more than 5,000 in existence throughout the world . |
| 18 | There are probably more than a billion billion available planets in the universe . |
| 19 | There are rarely more than two in a grave , the largest number from a single grave being the 17 examples from grave 1 at Breach Down ( Kent ) . |
| 20 | The bull has been so popular with commercial producers that over 900,000 doses of semen have been sold so far , and there are already more than 30,000 milking daughters in the US alone . |
| 21 | The first Challenger trimaran ( three hulls ) was produced in 1978 and there are now more than 120 in use throughout the UK . |
| 22 | There are now more than 500 English vineyards , with the northernmost near Leeds where the temperature reached 94°F last August . |
| 23 | When Margaret Thatcher 's first government came to power there were 14.3m vehicles on the road — there are now more than 19.7m . |
| 24 | There are now more than 60 UK compacts in place , six in the north-east . |
| 25 | There are now more than 100 families here . |
| 26 | Quorn was originally introduced in ready-meals such as Tesco 's Kashmiri Korma ; sales rose quickly and there are now more than 60 versions on sale . |
| 27 | Although there are now more than 700,000 employees in PRP schemes , one may well ask why the figure is n't higher . |
| 28 | There are now more than 30 international offshore financial centres dotted around the world . |
| 29 | IBM Corp claims that there are now more than 1,100 applications specifically developed for OS/2 2.0 , a figure that it says exceeds its own expectations . |
| 30 | The CDHES estimates that there are now more than 500.000 displaced persons who have moved to areas away from the conflict zones and some 1 million ( 20% of the entire population ) living outside the country . |