Example sentences of "over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a year or two , therefore , we have shifted from a population of recently diagnosed AIDS patients , often reasonably well but with lives dominated by a threat of pneumonia , to a population surviving longer and developing a range of further complex problems of a chronic debilitating nature . |
| 2 | The rule of law in Sri Lanka has been seriously eroded : in the past three years , over a dozen lawyers have been murdered because of their involvement with human rights cases and at least 20 others have been forced to flee the country after receiving death threats . |
| 3 | Were you surprised how soon you got into the RSC — and that you have now ended up after only just over a year and a half in the profession playing Juliet and Hermia ? |
| 4 | Have been for over a week . |
| 5 | The fact that it is over a hundred years old does not detract from its impact . |
| 6 | Out of a desire to protest against the ‘ oppression and exploitation ’ he saw around him , he began to write short stories , by the time of his death over a hundred had been published . |
| 7 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 8 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 9 | Just over a year later , at a ‘ Career Appraisal Interview ’ with the chief constable , I was asked : ‘ tell me , how did you find the law course at the polytechnic ? ’ |
| 10 | It was a just over a week since she had first set foot on the Dorset coast path . |
| 11 | I 'm not irresponsible , thirty twelve-year-olds over a year … |
| 12 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 13 | There are over a thousand different shapes of carving chisels and gouges . |
| 14 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |
| 15 | Employment in agriculture , still the main rural industry , fell from over a million in the mid-Sixties to under 100,000 now . |
| 16 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 17 | Toleafoa had been a promising junior when she joined the circuit full time , just over a year ago . |
| 18 | He returned to action just over a week ago to show an impressive turn of foot in winning the Prix du Prince d'Orange . |
| 19 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | Using a stray plank , and ropes thrown over by those inside , they scrambled over a 12ft wall into the embassy grounds . |
| 21 | House prices have been adjusting downwards in the South-east for over a year . |
| 22 | BUSINESS failures are expected to rise by over a third this year according to figures produced by the credit insurer Trade Indemnity , and are now running at their highest rate since 1985 , writes Jason Nisse . |
| 23 | A huge volume of Ferranti shares has changed hands since they returned to trading just over a week ago and a number of other potential bidders are believed to have built up small stakes . |
| 24 | Pachinko is a £3.8bn-a-year industry which has a Svengali-like hold over a quarter of the adult population . |
| 25 | The steppes were the first to be affected , so that in June alone over a million peasants left them for the Volga . |
| 26 | In fact it soon found out , since by the end of July 1922 the ARA was having to feed 822,000 children and over a million adults in the Ukraine . |
| 27 | Over a million people found themselves dependent on supplementary benefit to eke out an inadequate existence as regards food and drink , with inflation taking its toll of what was provided . |
| 28 | Over a fifth of the adult population owned shares in late 1988 , contrasted with only 6 per cent in early 1984 . |
| 29 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 30 | That anyone of Milner 's mental power and insight could envisage a course of events which ran contrary both to the logic and experience of the actual British Empire over a hundred and fifty years is a staggering fact . |