Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all that was just over a year ago . |
| 2 | Also had a spell on the motorway for about er I think it was just over a year . |
| 3 | It was just over a year ago that British Coal announced the closure of thirty one of Britain 's deep mines . |
| 4 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 5 | perhaps she 's mellowed now , I mean the last time she went on with it , about it , was probably over a year ago , but she 's still going on about it definitely a year ago not just |
| 6 | It was slightly over a year later when we felt that conditions were suitable for another attempt . |