Example sentences of "[coord] more [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 2 | Ten of 13 ventilated infants in the random group received fractions of inspired oxygen of 0.6 or more compared with two of 13 in the regulated group ( p<0.01 ; χ² ; test ) . |
| 3 | Townsend 's data shows that a higher proportion of the non-manual groups — 19 per cent — received paid holidays of five weeks or more compared to a very negligible proportion of the manual groups — 1 per cent . |
| 4 | In contrast , the proportion of all widows aged 65 or more increased from 38 per cent to nearly 60 per cent , while their numbers rose from 386,000 in 1871 to 1,529,000 in 1951 , doubling between 1871 and 1921 , and almost doubling again during the following thirty years , reflecting increased longevity amongst women . |
| 5 | To win a slice of that market , Sun , Hewlett-Packard and IBM are now selling workstations priced at less than $1,000 — little dearer than top-of-the-range PCs and far cheaper than the $15,000 or more charged for traditional scientific machines . |
| 6 | Investors would be compensated in the event of the failure of an authorised investment firm of 100 per cent on the first £30 000 invested , 90 per cent the next £20 000 and nothing on the excess , providing a maximum cover of £48 000 on £50 000 or more invested . |
| 7 | The English House Condition survey , which the Department of the Environment published shortly before Christmas 1982 , showed a sharp increase in the number of homes now needing £7000 or more spent on them to bring them up to an acceptable standard . |
| 8 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |
| 9 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 10 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 11 | Shares of 14 of the airlines are traded on stock exchanges , but 12 of the participants are 50% or more owned by government . |
| 12 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 13 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 14 | a fixed-term contract for one year or more entered into from 1 October 1980 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for unfair dismissal , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term ; |
| 15 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 16 | In his study of Parliamentary politics under William , Horwitz examined four Lords ' divisions lists — from 1689 , 1696 , and two from 1701 — and found that 76 per cent of those peers voting twice or more voted consistently Whig or Tory . |
| 17 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 18 | All doctors ( n=48 ) in the participating practices who had performed two or more prompted clinical reviews by May 1989 were also sent a questionnaire of 24 question stems , of which seven are reproduced in box 3 ; 31 general practitioners ( 65% ) responded . |
| 19 | They are luckier than , say , Merseyside , which can mobilise in defence of the equally or more hard-hit local interest only the memory of the Beatles , of generations of Scouse comedians and the proud tradition of its rival football teams , while taking care to keep away from anything that reminds its inhabitants too obviously of the divisive colours Orange and Green . |
| 20 | I am therefore today asking you for her hand , for no one else is capable of making me happy nor more fitted to wear a crown . |
| 21 | She felt angry at the idea being thrust on her , and more determined in her purpose of obtaining money for the drainage of the West Bog . |
| 22 | The pomeshchiks became more and more absorbed in their farms , and as these grew in size , military service for a minimal salary became less and less attractive . |
| 23 | Yet slowly , as she worked , became more and more absorbed in what she was doing , the memories faded . |
| 24 | There , troubled by the poverty of the peasants and his own involuntary role as a supporter of the imperial system , he became , he wrote , ‘ more and more engrossed with the single poetic theme of Life and Death ’ . |
| 25 | As the countries of the world , irrespective of bloc , appear to become more and more bound up with one another through the extension of transnational practices , some of which are directly identifiable as practices of global capitalism and some of which not , the fact of the global system becomes more and more obvious to ever more people , though the nature of the global system might still appear extremely difficult to grasp . |
| 26 | He 's a fine big man , they tell me , Lachlan Cattanach , and more fitted to control that hellcat down the stair there than young Hector . |
| 27 | It seems to me , from a number of recent papers ( and from common sense ) that the rare event is becoming more and more recognised as an important agent of recent sedimentation . |
| 28 | People do n't appreciate the material belongings that surround them , they just buy things and then chuck them away , they consume and consume and get more and more lost . |
| 29 | Norman got more and more lost in black music when he was a member of The Housemartins . |
| 30 | Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid . |