Example sentences of "[verb] well over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 2 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 3 | They significantly reduced overhead by combining various subhead-quarters of related businesses , thereby eliminating well over 20,000 overhead positions . |
| 4 | He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all . |
| 5 | Since the mid-50s he has designed well over 100 West End productions and has also worked at the National Theatre , the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Chichester Festival Theatre . |
| 6 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 7 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 8 | These industries export well over 50 per cent of the output and any exogenous change in foreign exchange rates can have a dramatic effect on costs , relative prices and therefore sales . |
| 9 | On some plausible estimates it has already built well over 100 atomic bombs , together with a score or so of even more horrific hydrogen bombs and the means to deliver them . |
| 10 | you 're gon na do well over five hundred words , bloody writing it out . |
| 11 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 12 | Of course there are cards on the market with more memory and processor power to drive expensive monitors at high resolutions ( like 1280 by 1024 ) and 256 colours but they cost well over £1000 . |
| 13 | Space heating uses well over half , yet 75 per cent of it escapes into the outside world . |
| 14 | Bill Larnach has written well over 40 published papers including a book . |
| 15 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 16 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 17 | For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver , one could cite an Arab attack , massacre or atrocity , not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians . |
| 18 | After the business meeting a film entitled ‘ Going well over sixty ’ made in conjunction with Age Concern and the Sunday Times will be shown . |
| 19 | The Business Meeting will be followed by a showing of the new film ‘ Going Well Over Sixty ’ and general discussion . |
| 20 | In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis . |
| 21 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |
| 22 | Laurence del Brok began acquiring property on a small scale in 1236 , and over the course of his lifetime he spent well over £1,000 on property acquisitions . |
| 23 | We 've invested well over a million pound in micro-computers for the teaching of pupils right across the three phases of first , middle , and upper schools . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They found grasshoppers , beetles , slugs , caterpillars , spiders and then calculated on the basis of their findings that this three-and-a-half acre meadow must contain well over 100,000 large invertebrates . |
| 26 | Lasting well over four hours , it is patently in no hurry to come to conclusions or to an end . |
| 27 | A CCG team has raised well over £1,000 for Glasgow 's Beaston Oncology Centre , by completing the Glasgow half marathon in August . |
| 28 | During this period he collected well over 80,000 ancient coins and other objects which first provided a chronology of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centuries after the death of Alexander the Great . |
| 29 | Thanks to the support of many members we raised well over £1,200 from which we gave £646 in prizes and had £600 for the Society . |
| 30 | ‘ In the Gwynedd district , we are developing and refurbishing well over 300 km of line per year in order to improve the quality of supply to our customers , and it is essential that our costs are kept to a minimum , ’ said Mr Basford . |