Sentence examples for often more or less from inspiring English sources

In the public sector, those providers are often more or less nonowned organizations or nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

It's also the dangers he faces as a prostitute who often more or less masks his intentions ("You can always out-talk them").

A prolific author such as Iris Murdoch, for instance, or Anita Brookner, usually becomes a genre unto themselves, revisiting the same subjects, and very often more or less the same characters.

Whereas 60% of the labour force in Lima are waged workers, only 27% are in Apurímac, notes Efraín González, an economist at Lima's Catholic University.These unwaged people are often more or less cut off from the market economy.

A word about this sort of thing: anyone who steps on the toes of either corporate interests or major conservative institutions (which are often more or less the same thing) has to expect to run into a buzzsaw.

In bottom-dwelling fishes such as the Balitoridae, Cobitidae, and many catfishes, the posterior chamber is greatly reduced and the anterior one often more or less surrounded by a bony capsule.

Improved computer modelling is necessary before we will be able to know exactly how much more (or less) often we can expect the storms, droughts, heatwaves and floods delivered by our changed climate system.

But then social institutions that work often are more or less messy compromises.

It's often said, more or less accurately, that a successful joke is a kind of surprise.

(Cucinelli is often dressed more or less identically to his personal assistant, Francesco Tomassini, as if they were teen-agers who'd coördinated outfits by phone before school).

A number of alterations, often causing more or less distress, occur in the physical condition and functions of the gastrointestinal tract during pregnancy.