Example sentences of "were [adv] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were rather more than four people at the 1985 clipping ceremony , indeed the church was full . |
| 2 | Some were little more than 50 hectares , although the Tyneside zone was over 450 hectares . |
| 3 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 4 | By 1947–8 you were all more or less back in business — Furtwängler , Böhm , Knappertsbusch , and others . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |
| 9 | Er the other complaints were just more or less er maybe arguments er workers getting into trouble over their arguing about frivolous things you know . |
| 10 | Before the National Government banned Britons going to Spain at the beginning of 1937 there were already more than 600 men in the British Battalion of the International Brigade , organized by the Communist Party of Great Britain , while others , such as George Orwell , identified with the Independent Labour Party activists who fought with POUM , a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist group . |
| 11 | By the time of the war in Brittany in 1342 there were already more than 1,700 of them in service . |
| 12 | There were once more than 60 American makers of robots , but only a few remain . |
| 13 | Though high blood pressure is a treatable risk with a higher prevalence and mortality in young men than young women , that study showed that even in the age group 40–44 young women were still more than twice as likely to be detected as men . |
| 14 | There were still more than thirty calves left in the building and the terrible thought arose that the disease might spread through all of them . |
| 15 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 16 | With Kallicharran making 53 , there were only four more needed when the second wicket fell , and as there were also more than thirteen overs in hand West Indies won the Prudential Trophy on a faster run rate over the two games . |
| 17 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |
| 18 | One of these promoters assured me that there were now more than thirty scientific surveys ( carried out by TM ) to ‘ prove ’ , among other things , that accident and crime statistics dropped in areas where one per cent ( or even the square root of one per cent ) of the population were TM followers . |
| 19 | Kuehn ( 1974 ) in an analysis of victim reports of 100 crimes found that crimes in which the victim was threatened by a weapon were neither more nor less completely reported than those in which no weapon was used . |
| 20 | Or did the church actively create the canon in response to Marcion and other sectarian leaders whose ‘ inspired ’ writings were either more or less than the church accepted ? |
| 21 | The boats were never more than 36 seconds apart until the finish , where Conner took a flyer on the final run to end 2 min 8 sec behind . |
| 22 | The knights were never more than one arm of any fighting force ; and it is hardly likely that any force of knights was ever recruited entirely by ‘ feudal ’ means . |
| 23 | Yet there were never more than 23 . |
| 24 | Probably there were never more than eight or ten newcomers at Canterbury among a native community of perhaps thirty or forty Englishmen ; but it was the privilege of the newcomers to command , and of the native monks to exercise their monastic vocation of obedience . |
| 25 | Throughout the coalition , there were never more than fourteen offices of cabinet or departmental rank to satisfy the combined ambition of 300–359 MPs and a large number of peers . |
| 26 | But what is possible in theory , does not always happen in practice , and there are many Third World countries that were recently more or less self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs , that are now increasingly dependent on imports . |
| 27 | When the lawyer representing British Caledonian Airways , who were opposing Virgin 's application , remarked that Virgin would need ‘ a lot of groups on Top of the Pops ' to afford to run an airline , Branson promptly retorted that Virgin 's £11.4m profits in 1983 were actually more than twice those of British Caledonian . |