Example sentences of "[adv] more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 2 | A photograph taken in Picasso 's studio in the summer of 1908 shows an earlier , apparently more or less completed version of the Three Women executed in a style which makes use of rough , almost violent striations , used to emphasize the different areas to the sides of the figures , while the figures themselves appear to have the rough-hewn bulkiness of much of the most characteristic contemporary African-influenced figure pieces . |
| 3 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 4 | In the end all six planes came together more or less head-on . |
| 5 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 6 | So here there are only more or less likely speculations . |
| 7 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 8 | Since the distance and aperture remain the same , only more or less of the same picture is being shown , just as if a camera in a museum or on an animation stand were moving in and out on an oil painting . |
| 9 | First , the tasks we carry out are not only more or less complex but they also become more complex as they separate out into discrete categories or types of complexity . |
| 10 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 11 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 12 | Again there was a Black Sumatra and one chick on the ground , but this time there were nine others aloft , all more or less black . |
| 13 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 14 | Astonishingly , they all more or less agreed on broad policy . |
| 15 | They all more or less agreed above undercurrents of mutual ill-will that it was time to be hit by the brutish cold again . |
| 16 | By 1947–8 you were all more or less back in business — Furtwängler , Böhm , Knappertsbusch , and others . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 18 | In Yorkshire Gypsy Fairs by E Alan Jones , one elderly resident recalled ‘ deep trouble ’ between the villagers and the gypsies when they were all more or less drunk . |
| 19 | Derek Edwards , speaking after the Place of Safety orders were extended , said that although they had all more or less expected this to happen , it was another blow for the parents . |
| 20 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 21 | Knossos had seven or eight entrances , all different in design , all more or less inconspicuous . |
| 22 | . Well I think we 're all more or less there by now . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | And in no time at all erm they were all more or less depending in some small way on me , and I was just absolutely lapping the situation up , you know what I mean , just suited me fine . |
| 25 | And I think in terms of justifying that , if we had that you know , if you 're saying people have to justify why they 're going , I think they 'd all more or less say the same . |
| 26 | You know , actually , mo all more or less direct contact |
| 27 | The urban community turns out , upon closer scrutiny , to be a mosaic of minor communities , many of them strikingly different from one another , but all more or less typical . |
| 28 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 29 | They when I when I became a full time employer er a full time employee with the union it was all more or less small bakeries . |
| 30 | You know , this supreme race but all more or less equal . |