Example sentences of "over a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you turn over a few chapters in Matthew , into chapter fourteen , you 've got another er watery illustration there , it 's , Jesus is coming towards the disciples , he walking on the water ! |
| 2 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 3 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 4 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 5 | There was no point in saying they were nothing to do with me , because I 'd got so many — just over a hundred charges of fraud and deception . |
| 6 | Trade union de-recognition is having effect of reducing the solidarity of workers and of reducing rights built up over a hundred years of trade union movement . |
| 7 | There are now over a hundred makes of micro-computer for sale in the United Kingdom , and several thriving magazines entirely devoted to these devices . |
| 8 | I read once there 's over a hundred miles of rivers under the city , like the Fleet which rises in Hampstead and comes out into the Thames at Blackfriars , all underground . ’ |
| 9 | Over a hundred sherds of pottery were recovered from the rampart . |
| 10 | I I could n't tell you the exact number but it was over a hundred shops in Edinburgh . |
| 11 | However the largest single source of the pollution for Canada is thought to be the nickel and copper smelting plant at Sudbury , Ontario which emits over a million tonnes of sulphur dioxide every year . |
| 12 | Determined to break up what it sees as a cosy cartel , it has already spent over a million pounds on marketing and corporate entertainment . |
| 13 | Over a million pounds of damage was caused by the fire , but no one was ever caught . |
| 14 | Almost 100 new companies had been formed , and Schach had been able to secure over a million pounds in bank guarantees to finance not only such expensive disasters as Dreaming Lips , Love from a Stranger and The Marriage of Gorbal , but even films that were never made . |
| 15 | It numbered well over a million men by Nicholas 's day . |
| 16 | That vote condemned over a million workers to poverty pay . |
| 17 | I had over a thousand letters of congratulation . |
| 18 | There have been over a thousand acts of piracy in the past ten years . |
| 19 | The sums of money allocated on the basis of these unreliable estimates are large : each additional child aged 5–17 in a lone-parent family attracts just over a thousand pounds in GRE . |
| 20 | But when the make do and mend clubs were told that even worn out soft collars and shirt cuffs would make maps for tank commanders , they responded well and over a thousand tons of rag was collected between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three . |
| 21 | Now of course , ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ is the bible of the racing man , it 's over a thousand pages in total , there are pen portraits of all the eight thousand horses that ran on the flat in England in 1990 , and lot 's more as well . |
| 22 | Two-up and with half fuel , we briefly was over a thousand feet per minute of the VSI before I had to throttle back to slide into position behind the struggling Cessna 150 camera ship . |
| 23 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |
| 24 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 25 | There are now companies in Japan , Europe and the US building computers which can perform over a billion operations per second ( a gigaFlop ) . |