Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] over [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Oldham-based firm , which manufactures a wide range of healthcare products , from swabs to saline solution and a variety of over the counter medicines and treatments , recently spent more than £1m on extending its Bootle pharmaceutical manufacturing facility , which trades under the name Seton Prebbles .
2 Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top
3 With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails .
4 There is also a plan for over a 100 turbines in the Cambrian Mountains in Wales .
5 The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order .
6 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 .
7 They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile .
8 Choose a dessert from over the page or serve cheese .
9 A drop of over an ounce for a bird Dawn 's size could have seriously damaged her health , and , therefore , her ability to fly .
10 ‘ Come on , Angus , ’ Donald persisted , ‘ let us hear a song from over the mountains .
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