For three hundred years, more or less, these two, who gave each other up for Christ, have been given back by Christ to each other: together they have followed the Lamb whithersoever He goeth; the Lord has been their everlasting light, and the days of their mourning have been ended.
— from For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary by Emily Sarah Holt

Indeed 'tis a sudden coming; but I grieve To hear you make of love a cruelty.
— from Emblems Of Love by Lascelles Abercrombie

Yet to hook yourself more or less indissolubly on to something of this sort, is the only possible means by which "excelsior" aspirations can be gratified in the world of Rome.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The Division Commander and staff were about three hundred yards more or less, behind us in direct line with this gun that was shelling us.
— from Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott

You know I did not mean to hurt you, my own little sister!” said Herbert, sympathisingly, patting her head as if he were saying “Poor dog!
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Here both you and the enemy have scores of miles behind you, and two or three hundred yards more or less makes no difference worth mentioning.
— from Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean

But men will have to wait some three hundred years, more or less, before they discover this; and meanwhile, all the oil, wax, pitch, and tallow of the earth will be exhausted, and they will have nothing more to burn.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi