Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union is said to contain more than 1000 towns where its own permissible levels of atmospheric pollution are exceeded five-fold or more and 20 per cent of the population live in what the head of the Academy of Sciences ' biology institute calls ‘ ecological disaster zones ’ . |
| 2 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |
| 3 | The rules are beautifully simple , but its branching ratio is 300 or more and it is more subtle than chess . |
| 4 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 5 | The meal needs to contain 1000 kCal or more and have a relatively high fat contant ( <40% ) . |
| 6 | The Health and Safety Agency ( established under Article 12 ) consists of a Chairman and not less than six nor more than nine other members . |
| 7 | According to FECODE , the situation is not improving : 47 teachers have been killed since the beginning of 1991 and more than 400 have received death threats . |
| 8 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 9 | Widespread protests across the country , and especially in the capital , Santa Domingo , had left at least 14 people dead , with dozens reported wounded and more than 1,000 protestors arrested . |
| 10 | The pound is down at one dollar , fifty and more than three pfennigs down at two marks , forty-seven . |
| 11 | Do lists and coordinations ( eg lists of nouns ) tend to occur with two , three or more than three members ? |
| 12 | Synodontis Multipunctatus is a peaceful species , which can be kept either on its own or as a group of three or more if you have a very large tank . |
| 13 | Example 3:7 Landlord 's power to break ( 1 ) The landlord shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than six months ' notice in writing expiring on or after [ date ] if he intends at the expiry of such notice either : ( a ) to demolish or reconstruct the demised property or a substantial part of it or to carry out substantial work of construction on the demised property or part of it ; or ( b ) to occupy the demised property for the purposes or partly for the purposes of a business to be carried on by him ( 2 ) The service of a notice under s25 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 shall be sufficient notice and good service for the purposes of the preceding subclause Example 3:8 Tenant 's power to break on refusal of planning permission The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy by not less than three nor more than six months ' notice in writing served not more than one month after the happening of any of the following events : ( 1 ) the refusal or deemed refusal by the local planning authority to renew the planning permission dated [ date ] permitting the use of the demised property for ; ( 2 ) the dismissal by the Secretary of State or an appointed person of any appeal against any such refusal ; ( 3 ) the expiry of the said planning permission Example 3:9 Tenant 's right to break preventing exercise of rights under Landlord and Tenant Act The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … by giving not less than thirteen months ' previous notice to that effect Example 3:10 Tenant 's conditional right to break The tenant shall be entitled to determine this tenancy on … if : ( 1 ) he gives thirteen months ' written notice to that effect ; and ( 2 ) both at the date of the notice and at the date of its expiry there are neither any outstanding arrears of rent nor any subsisting breach of covenant by the tenant for which the landlord would be entitled to recover damages of more than a nominal amount |
| 14 | It enables Excel , Visual Basic and more than 150 other Windows- and MS-DOS-based tools written for SQL Server to connect to Sybase on Unix and VMS machines using native PC-LAN protocols . |
| 15 | In the new world order , it may well be that nationalism functions as the opposition to that order , the main source of resistance and challenge to large and more or less integrated blocks of power . |
| 16 | In the lower reaches of the forest , then , there is a constant but low level of presentation of a few flowers dealt with by low but more or less constant densities of animals , whereas in the upper layers , the flowers are more conspicuously advertised and draw such animals as birds , which are wider-ranging and with good sight , as well as the local , more stationary pollinators from lower in the forest . |
| 17 | Some of the larger models made appreciable noise in winds of Force 4 or more and the fans , of course , are almost lethal at these speeds . |
| 18 | This forms a stable platform , and further tipping can take place until the tip rises to 100 m or more and is shaped rather like a stepped pyramid . |
| 19 | ( b ) not less than fourteen nor more than thirty-five clear days before the date appointed for the general meeting , notice executed by a member qualified to vote at the general meeting has been given to the Company of the intention to propose that person for appointment , together with notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed . |
| 20 | ( b ) not less than fourteen nor more than thirty-five clear days before the date appointed for the general meeting , notice executed by a member qualified to vote at the general meeting has been given to the Company of the intention to propose that person for appointment , together with notice executed by that person of his willingness to be appointed . |
| 21 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 22 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 23 | And gentility is a belief that life is always more or less orderly , people always more or less polite , their emotions and habits more or less decent and more or less controllable ; that God , in short , is more or less good , |
| 24 | After visits during these extra two hours were excluded , claims increased by 38.7% from 1989 to 1992 and more than doubled in the past 10 years . |
| 25 | Hundreds of people have been killed and injured and more than 170,000 displaced since fighting intensified two weeks ago . |
| 26 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 27 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 28 | In the USA , the financing of unusually high federal government deficits ( averaging over $150 billion throughout the 1980s ) has produced a government bond market of a size equivalent to more than £1,000 billion or more than eight times the size of the UK government bond market . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | or more non-whites , so we divided all areas into those with less or more than 10 per cent . |