Example sentences of "[noun sg] of over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoƫ Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
2 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
3 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
4 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
5 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
6 | Often the outfall will be off-site and it may be necessary to provide a storm water sewer of over a mile to achieve an outfall acceptable to the water authority . |
7 | Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus |
8 | The walk of over a mile to the nearest bus stop on the A6 can be very off-putting in bad weather . |
9 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |