Example sentences of "[verb] over half " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only about 20% of the city 's beds , the Health and Hospitals Corporation in the early 1980s provided over half of all organised outpatient visits and 40% of all emergency care in the city . |
| 2 | By the early seventies Japanese yards were launching over half the world 's ships . |
| 3 | After lunch ( not included ) visit the Medieval town of Gouda , famous for its cheese but with a lot more to discover such as St. Jans Kerk which contains over half of Holland 's antique stained-glass windows , the Gothic City Hall dating back to 1430 and a collection of fascinating museums . |
| 4 | If readers of the Figures wished successfully to grow the delectable assortment presented by Miller , they had but to turn to his Dictionary for all the practical advice gleaned over half a century 's gardening and , if that proved too expensive , then there was the Abridgement or the Kalendar . |
| 5 | His army 's just a day away from here , and ours is still scattered over half Belgium . |
| 6 | Guild of Bricklayers ’ judges visited over half of the original projects entered taking into account technical quality , cleanliness of the face , correct use of coloured bricks and particularly the quality of any special features , such as arches . |
| 7 | The last remark could be made of financial problems also , yet , even in these hard times , it can hardly be said that insoluble money problems beset over half the population of Britain . |
| 8 | If you follow form this year 's national hunt festival should be a feast for the Nicholson team … he 's enjoying his best ever season … a record 80 winners have won over half a million pounds worth in prize money … stable jockey Richard Dunwoody is leading the chase for the championship … and the secret of all this success |
| 9 | For the first thousand feet there was nothing ; then a couple of private duels ; then a sprawling mêlée of about twenty aircraft spread over half a mile of sky . |
| 10 | In 1952 nearly 60 per cent of the production of the ACCs was located there , produced by around 33 per cent of the total number of workers operating over half of the business capital stock . |
| 11 | Chemists were well on the way to forming over half the total of persons professionally engaged in science . |
| 12 | The six steam locomotives helping to run the train services between Swanage and Harman 's Cross during the special weekend cover over half a century of British steam locomotive development — from Victorian times during the time of Gladstone and Disraeli through to the ‘ new dawn ’ of the 1960s and the era of the present Queen and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . |
| 13 | High Alpine mountains , lakes and barren rocks cover over half of the country . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard he 'd made over half a million dollars , ’ said Lowe . |
| 15 | Liffe 's Michael Jenkins says London handles over half of European financial futures trades and 90% of the German bund trade . |
| 16 | If the AEC had made no difference to the male participants with five or more preconvictions we would expect over half of them to have been reconvicted . |
| 17 | On one occasion , for example , the AAA Under-21s and Youths ' championships , I counted eight blacks in the whole non-participating sectors of the Alexander Sports Stadium , yet black participants comprised over half of the competitors . |
| 18 | An outbreak of food poisoning at the Stanley Royd Hospital near Wakefield affected over half the 800 elderly patients and caused nineteen deaths . |
| 19 | However , the residual eccentricity of the lunar orbit , plus other effects , means that we can see over half , about 59% , of the lunar surface from the Earth . |
| 20 | The Middle East is the most energy rich region of the world , possessing over half the world 's proven oil reserves and a quarter of the world 's gas reserves . |
| 21 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 22 | We are actually talking of events which happened over half a century ago . |
| 23 | The National Trust protects over half a million acres of countryside , mountains and lakes , farms and woods , and over 500 miles of coastline , nearly all of which is free to be enjoyed by everyone , to walk , sail , climb , picnic , or just simply relax . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've franked over half of it , ’ she said . |
| 25 | I remember a short , rhythmically complex passage patiently unpicked and reconstituted over half an hour . |
| 26 | Complex carbohydrates will make up your food intake when you cut down on fats , and should provide over half your energy needs . |
| 27 | The radial shields extend over half the radius of the disk and are about 3 times as long as broad . |
| 28 | I 've called over half a dozen times , Mellissa ! ’ |
| 29 | The war had cut a swathe of destruction across northern France and killed over half a million people . |
| 30 | Aid and credits from the World Bank and Japan constituted over half of the total package . |