Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last some passed me with books ; I stopped them , and found the books to be Bibles : it was all clear now , they were going to a week-day preaching , and shortly after , as the road wound down a glen over a burn , I met the Free Church minister on his way to the place of meeting . |
| 2 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 3 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 4 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 5 | The popularity of South Africa 's kruggerrand was due largely to the fact that collectors were buying a precise quantity of gold at only a fraction over the actual cost of the precious metal . |
| 6 | And only a fraction over one in ten said they even fancied someone else , a survey for TV Times and ITV 's Wish You Were Here programme found . |
| 7 | The coherence is therefore not only a coherence over time but also a consistency or cohesion in action . |
| 8 | The European Parliament would be given not only a veto over matters involving majority voting in the Council of Ministers , including all commercial issues falling within the Single Market , but also a wide range of issues newly added into the competence of the Community . |
| 9 | Some of the ones I passed were two or three pound they 're only a pound over there . |
| 10 | It was only a dispute over finance with the Olympic authorities which prevented the EEC from enacting a programme in which the athletes of every Member State would have competed in European Community uniforms , mounted the podium to the strains of Beethoven 's Ninth in place of their own anthems , and totted up a European total of medals . |
| 11 | Only a picture over the fireplace seemed out of place : an archly primitive painting of a large tabby cat and a Victorian child in a formal garden . |
| 12 | What was comfort only a roof over your head , a full belly , a fire , books to read and nothing on your mind ? |
| 13 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 14 | Similar experiments , of greater variety and equal sophistication , have long been used to test human perceptual abilities but cause scarcely a ripple over the apparatus of our everyday perceptual judgements . |
| 15 | Skilful Dancer ( 9.04 ) failed by just a head over the course and distance last time and an improved trap position should do the trick . |
| 16 | Alas , they are just a trifle over life size . |
| 17 | So the men always made sure the apprentices went and er it was just a matter over the years going to the meetings that you get interested in the business of the trade unions . |
| 18 | This is not just a quibble over words . |
| 19 | Now need you help , because they hope to offer a lot more than just a roof over the heads . |
| 20 | If , for example , there are 20 districts , it means that C 1 can grow at just a shade over one-twentieth the rate of growth of total expenditures and the condition for ON to exceed OP will be met . |
| 21 | Awnings serve many different functions , from just a shade over a window , to a focal point over an entrance , as well as keeping the concierge dry . |
| 22 | First , it was not a strike over wages — although a wage claim was later added to the terms on which the Union was prepared to return to work ; it was about the future of the coalmining industry in Great Britain , and in particular was a protest against a plan for extensive pit closures with consequences for both miners ' jobs and the future of their communities . |
| 23 | But not a roof over their heads . |
| 24 | This is not a dispute over some small detail , but about the basic mechanism of purring . |
| 25 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |
| 26 | But even where there is debate and conflict , there is usually a consensus over the central questions . |
| 27 | George Underwood : David was always a bit over the top and he decided to write to John Bloom , a millionaire business , saying something to the effect ‘ Brian Epstein has got The Beatles but you can have us ’ , but Bloom was n't that interested and passed his letter to Les Conn , an agent . ’ |
| 28 | After the match in Boston , Massachusetts , Mr Taylor said : ‘ It was always a match over which I never had any control . |
| 29 | That highly-creditable figure reflects nonetheless a fall over each of the last two seasons . |
| 30 | Someone set off a rocket over the green , and red and blue sparks hung for a moment against the thunderclouds then vanished into thin air . |