More or less
More or less adverb - Very close to but not completely.
Number of and more or less are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Number of" instead a pronoun phrase "More or less".
Number of
More or less and number of are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "More or less" instead a pronoun phrase "Number of".
Both terms in one sentence
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Drawing on a huge number of Otaku references, Lucky Star is more or less a show about nothing in particular.
Source: Manga / Lucky Star - On Naruto "not derailing the entire plot": he pushes Negi more or less completely out of the protagonist role, in a number of ways.
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Greg Egan's Diaspora is a Recursive Reality, beginning with the computer network the posthuman protagonists live in and ending in a more or less endless number of non-euclidean universes.
Source: Recursive Reality
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