Example sentences of "[adv] over [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elise , tall , red-haired and elegant , occupied pole position on the centre-page shot , wearing one of Leonora 's sweaters , a silver fox-head brooch pinned to the scarf thrown carelessly over one shoulder , the interior of the shop in the background . |
| 2 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 3 | Editors threaten to resign , partisan journalists are foolhardy enough to stake their reputation on an act charting the following week , anxious record company operatives jam the switchboard — and all over one editorial decision about which photograph to use . |
| 4 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 5 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 6 | Initial indications show that already over 1 , people are planning to take advantage of the week , which more than firms and businesses are supporting . |
| 7 | His eyes kept looking away over one of my shoulders or the other , never meeting my gaze , and I got the impression that like his wife he was constantly waiting for something important to happen , expecting someone to arrive at any moment , as though they both could n't believe what had happened and it was all a dream or a ghastly joke and they were just waiting for Clare to come gangling through the front door , kicking off muddy green wellies and loudly demanding tea . |
| 8 | Just over two-thirds tell into one of our six categories of persistent readers ( or persistent non-readers ) . |
| 9 | Among those older workers in the study conventionally defined as economically inactive , just over two-thirds were retired , although only 18 per cent had retired at the normal pension age , 17 per cent were sick or injured , and 4 per cent were looking after their families . |
| 10 | Just over two-thirds of the total , or 10 per cent , worked with some identifiable voluntary organisation . |
| 11 | He had returned from a sojourn in New York to aid his oppressed people in the Spanish civil war , in which he lost his life just over one year after Leonard was born . |
| 12 | The rest has been on average just over one gramme . |
| 13 | Labour 's promises were judged by the electorate to be impracticable , and so the Conservatives were returned with a just over one hundred-seat majority . |
| 14 | Just over one year later , King was in the Northern Ireland Office and Lord Young was in the Department of Employment . |
| 15 | The schools had been involved with financial devolution for a varying number of years , from just over one year to more than seven . |
| 16 | The oldest datable sound recording still in existence is just over one hundred years old , so our legacy covers a much smaller span of time than books , music , or paintings . |
| 17 | Production in 1974 was down from the immediately post-war total of 600 000 tons to just over one sixth that figure . |
| 18 | Just over one hundred years ago , a Frenchman , Arthur Batut , established the possibility of aerial photography when his successful experiments were described in La Nature of August 1888 . |
| 19 | It was just over one and a half minutes before that hour . |
| 20 | Since 1960 it has risen very rapidly — by just over one third . |
| 21 | The poster campaign lasted just over one week , serving as a strong reminder to the party leadership of the underlying current of discontent among students and teachers . |
| 22 | The ‘ xuechao ’ died out after just over one week but at its height both the university and state authorities were concerned that demonstrations could occur involving not only the Beida students but those from nearby campuses and even disaffected workers . |
| 23 | Finally , on 17th August 1801 , Commander Dundas was appointed acting captain of the newly commissioned San Antonio , having completed the transition from junior lieutenant to post-captain in just over one year . |
| 24 | The poolside bar can provide light meals at lunchtime and just over one mile away there is the restaurant Leonetto at the Hotel Renaie under the same management . |
| 25 | We 've currently been allocated just over one point three million from the housing corporation which represents about forty one percent of the money that we need to do the scheme . |
| 26 | Collectively we saw just over one hundred species ( 102 ) in the two days . |
| 27 | The total area dealt with before 1760 could hardly have exceeded 400,000 acres , a negligible amount when one thinks of England as a whole — only just over one per cent . |
| 28 | Whilst just over one fifth ( 21 per cent ) of the total labour force have part-time jobs , over a half ( 54 per cent ) of the temporary labour force are part-timers . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is the reason offered by only just over one third of all temporary workers . |
| 30 | Just over a quarter of them ( 26 per cent ) had left their last jobs for this reason , and only just over one third ( 35 per cent ) because of redundancy or dismissal . |