Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] well over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that in the course of 1960s church attendance in the province dropped from well over 80% to 25% , while the Quebec birth-rate has become one of the lowest in Canada . |
| 2 | The decision means that annual government support for the railways will have dropped from well over £1 billion to around £300 million in 10 years . |
| 3 | Her net contribution to the EEC budget now stands at well over £2 billion every year — a cost equivalent to that of building over a hundred National Health Service hospitals . |
| 4 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 5 | This is a species capable of growing to well over 12″ in length in double-quick time , under the right conditions . |
| 6 | BBC1 is very popular , while UTV goes into well over 50pc of homes in the Republic . |
| 7 | This VAT rate increase would raise about 10,000 million , amounting to well over 10% of our 30% standard rate of tax . |
| 8 | In Brunei oil and gas accounts for well over 90% of exports . |
| 9 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 10 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 11 | Although there is no such thing as a typical CD-I development budget , we can gain some sense of the scale of cost involved from the fact that many of the discs currently in production are budgeted at well over £250,000 . |