Example sentences of "[coord] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All inputs tested — backspace , a whole number ( up to seven digits & more than seven digits ) , linefeed , carriage return , other characters . |
| 2 | I ca n't think he was helped by all the upset at home during the past 18 months — mum taking a new man , & more or less telling both children that they could go & live with their Dad ( or Dads ) . |
| 3 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
| 4 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
| 5 | This was a century or more after the Romans had left — not that they influenced these parts very much — they built their walls and garrisons and roads and left the wild fell folk alone . |
| 6 | By contrast , those still stone free nine months or more after dissolution treatment has stopped are genuinely likely to have had complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 7 | As the text of the gospels was dissected , there came indeed to appear layers or strata ; some bits looked earlier than others ; the documents were made up out of a weaving of stories and sayings circulating in the earliest Church and then put together by a single hand or more than one hand . |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life . |
| 9 | Timber can usually be treated in situ , so if you detect or suspect infestation it is best to obtain a survey from a reputable timber treatment firm ( or more than one ) , who will provide a 30-year guarantee of their treatment . |
| 10 | The immense amount of solar energy which growing plants capture by photosynthesis and convert into chemical energy — some 30 BTOE per year or more than four times the world 's yearly total commercial energy consumption — is a renewable source of energy which offers great potential . |
| 11 | Pause for a moment and think of someone ( or more than one ) whom God has used for your own teaching , encouragement , guidance , perhaps in your youth or young adulthood or marriage , or at a crisis point in your life , or very recently . |
| 12 | This hypothesis can be investigated by consulting figure 13.2 , in which the sample has been subdivided according to whether respondents lived in households with a gross annual income from all sources of less or more than £6000 in 1984 ( termed somewhat inaccurately ‘ the rich ’ and ‘ the poor ’ in the discussion which follows ) . |
| 13 | Now it fetches £35 to £50 , or more than £100 for an unusual colour variation . |
| 14 | Obesity is defined as weight above the ninety-seventh centile compared to normal height or more than 20 per cent above the mean weight for the child 's age . |
| 15 | Often SSDs had a series of people leading different bits of implementation or more than one person thought they were in charge ; |
| 16 | In practice the range covered by the former was much narrower than the bare figures suggest , few of them having less than £2 or more than £25 — £30 . |
| 17 | In Buckinghamshire nineteen parishes , or more than 9 per cent , had no glebe by the seventeenth century , several had also been depopulated , and in a further half-dozen the living was impropriate . |
| 18 | With the exception of a few intervening slabs , the routes are always steep , rarely less than overhanging or more than 25m , on near perfect rock and well equipped with bolts and chains for ‘ moulinette ’ . |
| 19 | One may be less sanguine about the average voter 's capacity to rank candidates , whether of one preferred party or more than one , according to their relative merit and aptitude . |
| 20 | The Higher Grade Schools charged only 9d a week , and the Grammar School fees were now £9 a year , or more than four times as great . |
| 21 | Do lists and coordinations ( eg lists of nouns ) tend to occur with two , three or more than three members ? |
| 22 | Far more important was the growth in manufacturing employment which increased overall by 31% or more than 1700 jobs for men and by 1600 jobs or 54% , for women between 1951 and 1966 . |
| 23 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |
| 24 | Where the parent company or group has a significant holding ( 10% or more shares of an undertaking or more than 10% of the investing company 's assets ) in an undertaking ( which is not a subsidiary undertaking , joint venture or associated undertaking ) the following must be stated : |
| 25 | Although you will be writing a story in which a murder , or more than one murder , is the key happening , you have got to make it compatible with the humour with which you intend to infuse the whole . |
| 26 | This distinction has to be expressed morphologically , by adding a suffix to a noun or by changing its form in some other way to indicate whether it refers to one or more than one : student/students , fox/foxes , man/men , child/children . |
| 27 | The reader of the Chinese text has no way of knowing , from this title , whether China has one or more than one panda reserve . |
| 28 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 29 | Chinese and Japanese speakers are not too concerned with establishing in each case whether there is one or more than one of a given referent , just as English speakers are not particularly interested in establishing whether there are two or more than two persons or objects . |
| 30 | I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison , or more than one year of solitary confinement . |