Example sentences of "of over a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
| 5 | Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus |
| 6 | The walk of over a mile to the nearest bus stop on the A6 can be very off-putting in bad weather . |
| 7 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 8 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 9 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 10 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |