Example sentences of "or less [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when Mill tries to explain how we can decide which is qualitatively the better of two pleasures , his actual answer is more or less that the higher pleasure is the one which is actually more liked by those in a position to compare them . |
| 2 | Aye more or less that that 's right . |
| 3 | but you got ta do two hundred words or less that you wan na be when you 're older . |
| 4 | We 'd known more or less since I 'd heard the words Jihad Islami in the Land of Grey and Pink , but they 'd never actually said it . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been besotted with each other more or less since they were children . |
| 6 | You finished about eight o'clock at night , you had about twelve hours so you 're working more or less except for the was n't very long . . |
| 7 | Well more or less but he were n't amused at any of the results so |
| 8 | Just to help but erm yes everybody was in the same position more or less but erm and yet they used to help in a s own little way . |
| 9 | During the first three years of full-time drug squad work ( 1966–8 ) arrests totalled some sixty-four persons — or less than two per month . |
| 10 | In a similar way we can use the die figures for the early imperial bronze coinages minted at Corinth to calculate that the total value coined over a century was only about half a million denarii , or less than 5000 per year . |
| 11 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 12 | While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month . |
| 13 | The number of seats for Great Britain England , Scotland and Wales ) , which must not be substantially more or less than 613 , is presently 627 . |
| 14 | It would also be a simple matter of alter the ‘ daily ’ timing to a period of more or less than one day . |
| 15 | Perhaps one of the most important groups for the stimulation of change is that which falls between these two poles : those teachers who I would see as belonging to the 25 to 35 year-old age group , or perhaps those who have not been teaching for more than six , or less than three , years . |
| 16 | We studied cases in which the patient had a fatal aggravation of liver disease during or less than two months after interferon alfa treatment . |
| 17 | The SAVE trial enrolled 2231 patients who had suffered myocardial infarction , had ejection fractions equal to or less than 40% , and had no symptoms of heart failure . |
| 18 | The SOLVD prevention study included 4220 patients , nearly 80% of whom had history of myocardial infarction , with ejection fractions equal to or less than 35% . |
| 19 | Though many issues remain to be resolved , data from the SOLVD prevention and SAVE trials provide compelling evidence that patients recovering from myocardial infarction with asymptomatic left ventricular systolic dysfunction ( ejection fraction equal to or less than 40% ) benefit from long term administration of an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor . |
| 20 | Er in use of other you should have the difference in survival between the patients that had more than twenty one or less than twenty one but actually it er you did n't show us the survival curves for |
| 21 | No the answer to the question is almost er all or most of the total , about half , or less than half the total . |
| 22 | Was it almost er All or or most of the total amount you spent in the last year , about half or less than half the total ? |
| 23 | All or most of the total , about half or less than half the |
| 24 | Er how much of the money you 've spent , what proportion , all , most of the total , about half or less than half the total have you spent at a shop . |
| 25 | cos you do n't give somebody nothing or less than nothing . |
| 26 | This year 's results tend to reinforce that view with exports to the former Eastern bloc remaining of limited significance at £82 million or less than 1% of the total . |
| 27 | Well there as I mentioned a staff reduction of a hundred and ninety two and significant er staff reduct er cost reduction in other , other areas we , we analyze every single er publishing unit and where the erm where they were marginally profitable or less than marginally profitable er we 've taken appropriate action . |
| 28 | The combination of the three parameters ( sphincter pressure equal or less than 6 mm Hg , total length of lower oesophageal sphincter equal or less than 20 mm and abdominal portion of the lower oesophageal sphincter with a length equal or less than 9 mm ) demonstrated in controls that this situation was not observed . |
| 29 | The combination of the three parameters ( sphincter pressure equal or less than 6 mm Hg , total length of lower oesophageal sphincter equal or less than 20 mm and abdominal portion of the lower oesophageal sphincter with a length equal or less than 9 mm ) demonstrated in controls that this situation was not observed . |
| 30 | The combination of the three parameters ( sphincter pressure equal or less than 6 mm Hg , total length of lower oesophageal sphincter equal or less than 20 mm and abdominal portion of the lower oesophageal sphincter with a length equal or less than 9 mm ) demonstrated in controls that this situation was not observed . |