Here's where it came from:
Others however are more or less combinations of both samatha and...
You will find in dictionaries that "more or less"
is an idiom that functions as one adverb. In the above, it means
"to some degree". In
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/more+or+less,
we find an example: This room is more or less an
extra - we don't really need it.
kb
Marcin MiÅkowski wrote thus at 05:08 PM 08-03-14:
There can be a verb or an uncountable noun, or an adverb. In the corpus
(GLOWBE) all matches of "more or less" + plural noun turned out to be
verbs misrecognized as nouns.
I may be wrong but I think "more or less combinations" is not standard
English. If you can find Charles Dickens or Jane Austin, or anything
that is definitely standard English, with this expression, I will add an
exception to the rule.
Regards,
Marcin
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