Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] over the " in BNC.

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1 When they hit the rock there was a huge crash , and white water flew everywhere , thirty , forty metres up over the Longstone rock .
2 The CBI Initiative 1992 held ten seminars for 150 people each , in thirteen centres all over the country .
3 The West End success It 's Magic took off on tour on April 24 , taking in 26 venues all over the country and calling for one night at Sunderland Empire on May 16 .
4 I remember my uncle Tommy Hauxwell , who came to live with us to manage the farm after Father died , telling me about the time Great-Grandad bought a big flock of geese over in Stainmore , which is more than six miles away over the moors .
5 She climbed to the podium , picked up the surprisingly heavy statuette and leaned forwards to accept Yeovil 's peck on the cheek , hoping she would n't flinch in three dimensions all over the world at his lizard 's touch .
6 In California , New Orleans , San Francisco and a dozen centres all over the States , tranquility-seekers are zapping stress by plugging in to brain gyms .
7 The breed has contributed to the formation or improvement of at least two dozen breeds all over the world , including many zebu-taurine crosses ( see Table 5 ) .
8 Ltd. which even then operated several thousand buses all over the London area .
9 By , by the end of the time when I er did the address I had about ten hearts all over the screen .
10 With the coarse fishing season opening at a minute past midnight tonight June 16 anglers all over the region will be itching to get to their favourite waters .
11 ICI , which is cutting 9,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years , announced that its annual pre-tax profits for 1992 were down to £565 million from £789 million .
12 Try putting yourself at five or six hundred feet directly over the landing area of your gliding site and see for yourself how difficult it is to plan and make a spot landing .
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