Example sentences of "or more " in BNC.
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| 1 | From lst October 1990 , there is also a new scheme called GIFT AID which allows you to give sums of £600 or more to a charity tax-effectively ( with a maximum of £5 million for your total charitable donations in any one tax year ) . |
| 2 | You can use the GIFT AID scheme if you wish to give another £600 or more . |
| 3 | Payments qualify for tax relief under gift Aid only if the donation is for £600 or more . |
| 4 | A finals company usually means there are some fourteen or sixteen students , or more , to be placed . |
| 5 | The wort is then run into a copper where it is boiled for an hour or more with hops . |
| 6 | After primary fermentation the beer is stored ( the German word is ‘ lagered ’ ) for a short time but rarely for the month or more that is standard abroad . |
| 7 | Strong ales come in a variety of styles and strengths — winter warmers , barley wines , Christmas Ales , Old Ales — with gravities ranging from 1050 to 1100 or more . |
| 8 | There 's too much to be done in the garden to leave it for a week or more . |
| 9 | Thorough preparation of the plot before sowing also say off those other perennial horrors , couch and horsetail , both of which can go down 6ft or more and spread in all directions . |
| 10 | In light winds the situation is far more critical than in windy weather , when it may be possible to land ahead from 500 feet or more , even on a relatively small site . |
| 11 | Most of the pilots were unconcerned if they were five feet or more to the side on their first attempts . |
| 12 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |
| 13 | If you receive payment for looking after one or more children who are not related to you , for 2 hours or more per day , then you should , by law , register with your local Social Services Department . |
| 14 | Unusual powders , tablets , capsules , scorched tinfoil or more rarely nowadays needles or syringes . |
| 15 | Unbalanced emotions or more serious mental disorders |
| 16 | If you 've worked for one employer for two years or more before leaving to have your baby , you may be entitled to maternity pay . |
| 17 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 18 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
| 19 | In succumbing to ‘ the temptation of subjectivism ’ ( ibid. 23 ) , she recognizes that it becomes impossible to put any distance between oneself and the ‘ native ’ , or more importantly between oneself and oneself in such a situation . |
| 20 | In this even more marginal world of cross-cultural perception and social contrast , the statistical truths I was consistently having to produce for local politicians , senior officers , the press , and the public in Newcastle were of little value , especially when discussion on the structures surrounding approval or illegality of some drug use was a matter which might encompass problems of economic , geographical , cultural , or even religious boundaries , or more likely the changing political whim or opportunity of the moment . |
| 21 | If you are over retirement age , disabled , or sick , disconnection can be delayed for 14 days or more ( 21 days in the case of gas ) if you inform the fuel boards that you are contacting the Department of Social Security ( D.S.S. ) or Social Services for help . |
| 22 | A benefit paid to people under 65 who spend 35 hours or more per week looking after someone who receives Attendance Allowance . |
| 23 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 24 | The Charter Unit 's second-class sets , or more correctly standard class sets as BR now prefers to describe them , also underwent refurbishment during the tail end of the 1980s with twenty-four of the Mk 1 TSOs being smartened up and fitted for air braking during 1988 , and a further twelve earmarked for the same treatment during the early part of 1990 . |
| 25 | The wooden booths where people would bring in their items to pawn for cash , or more likely beer , still exist . |
| 26 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 27 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 28 | There are also professionally-applied textured coatings which are sprayed on , and should last for 10 years or more . |
| 29 | Ben gets two or more walks a day and plays with a rubber ring . |
| 30 | Images captured from TV , sent back from space , or more prosaically produced by a document scanner , are likely to fall into the same category . |