Example sentences of "a [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a little over a century since the first Protestant missionaries arrived in Brazil . |
| 2 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
| 3 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 4 | A little over a mile from Lucca , a turning leads to a vast park of age old oak , cork and bay trees surrounding the Villa San Michele , jealously guarding its serenity . |
| 5 | The lack of humanity , the emotionless sterility , were to become Morrissey 's main motivation in showering the place with flowers a little over a year later . |
| 6 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 7 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
| 8 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
| 9 | A little over a year ago he married Miss Doris Pike , daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Pike , of 6 , The Crescent , Halfway . |
| 10 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
| 11 | The normal period between contract and completion is a little over a month , but the Lois Scribener rules must be taken into account in fixing a date , as … considerable delays … can occur in obtaining replies to Land Registry searches . |
| 12 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 13 | If this is approved , the invitation would well be followed by a firm brief to produce a paper that could , at the BBC approved rate of reading , last anything from seven minutes to a little over an hour , at your discretion . |
| 14 | British Summer Time ) and the news was reported to the UK Accidents Investigation Branch ( AIB ) of the Department of Trade a little over an hour later . |
| 15 | The walk takes a little over an hour . |
| 16 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 17 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 18 | O for the Wings of a Dove gave everyone pleasure , with Paul stumbling a little over the notes , but gaining poise with the full-throated singing of Dinah , true to the note , like a thrush , or perhaps a nightingale . |
| 19 | The presentation was made in early December , a little over the quarter century mark which had been crossed in July . |
| 20 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
| 21 | The Quad X has six separate effects loops , which at first glance may seem a little over the top , but in reality is not such a bad idea . |
| 22 | One reviewer , John Naughton in The Observer , went a little over the top when he remarked : ‘ How does Mr Gooch know all this ? |
| 23 | A few hours later he was at a mega Hollywood party , the Welsh wonder from Stratford-upon-Avon , declaiming Shakespeare , drinking soundly , reciting Dylan Thomas , singing , story-telling , perhaps a little over the top , one or two thought , but to the majority a marvellous new whirlwind of talent and animal energy . |
| 24 | In the Eighties , his particular brand of show-off chic seemed a little over the top when compared to the cool abstractions of the Japanese or the haute-bourgeoise looks coming out of Paris . |
| 25 | Although the literary effusions of Hurtley and Wordsworth and the exaggerated landscapes of James Ward and J. M.W. Turner seem a little over the top to us dwellers in the twentieth century ( who , since the advent of the camera and the picture postcard , like our landscape more real and our prose less flowery ) , the scar nevertheless overhangs and dominates the scene as an example of the incredible forces at work when the landscape we now see was formed . |
| 26 | Then , realising that for a supposedly experienced sailor her enthusiasm was a little over the top , she added quickly and with complete honesty , ‘ I 've never sailed a boat like Seawitch before . |
| 27 | Erm should the erm that , given that er , sorry , that the er , er O P C S in fact erm er after every census makes er guesses about its accuracy erm would erm the spokesman , is the spokesman aware that in fact O P C S has said that a fair erm representation of the intercensal increase in population in Leicestershire er between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety one is in fact fifteen thousand people and does n't he feel that to provide for fifty three thousand in the structure plan is a little over the top ? |
| 28 | That might sound a little over the top , but the truth is that Quakers were streets ahead of Shrewsbury , and could well have surpassed the four goals which Hartlepool scored on their visit to Gay Meadow . |
| 29 | This has changed only a little over the years , but more recently the need for some sort of central policy for the area has increased . |
| 30 | I was a little over the limit . |