Example sentences of "[conj] just over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a rough period which is said to be around 2070 days or just over 5½ years , but it is rough . |
| 2 | Saturday 's attendance against Partick Thistle was 15,536 , or just over half the crowd that is thought necessary at each home game to meet the club 's weekly costs and overdraft repayments . |
| 3 | The 1964 British Election Survey found that just over half ( 51 per cent ) were satisfied with the status quo , and supporters of further nationalization outnumbered denationalizers by 28 to 21 per cent . |
| 4 | The latest official figures ( for 1985 ) released by the Government show that just over 35 per cent of older people were living on incomes at or below the generally accepted Income Support ( then Supplementary Benefit ) poverty line , compared with 10 per cent of people under pension age . |
| 5 | For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional . |
| 6 | Grossing up their results the authors of the inquiry suggested that just over 7 per cent of all jobs in the economy were temporary . |
| 7 | Their scale is demonstrated by the fact that just over 25 per cent of all public sector spending in Britain is accounted for by local authorities . |
| 8 | Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ? |
| 9 | Since only the United Nations can do the job of peacemaking , is the Minister concerned that just over half the value of the assessments on individual countries for last year has been paid , and will she therefore press other members of the international community to ensure that they give the United Nations the resources to do that necessary peacemaking and peacekeeping job ? |
| 10 | The Ulster Unionist chairman said that just over 11 years ago an 11-year-old boy had been killed in a no-warning IRA bomb blast in the town . |
| 11 | A number of Conservative MPs south of the Border have repeatedly protested that just over 50,000 voters are needed to elect a Scottish MP in Glasgow compared to the 80,000-plus required in the south of England , which returns a large number of Conservative MPs . |
| 12 | Although just over 1,000 feet high this conical hill , once described as ‘ Cleveland 's Matterhorn ’ , dominates the Cleveland skyline . |
| 13 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 14 | Although just over five feet eight inches tall , and seldom well trained , at his best he was strong , fast , and skilful enough to hold his own with Cribb , reputedly the best of all bare-knuckle boxers , and but for his fondness for high living , might well have been champion . |
| 15 | More than three in five complained about noisy and drunk passengers and just over half were upset by having to travel with smokers . |
| 16 | Nearly half said Mr Clinton lacked the honesty and integrity to be President , and just over half said they were backing him with reservations . |
| 17 | Under her , there have been 30–35 standing-committees and just over 120 ad hocs in six and a half years . |
| 18 | Theories that attempt to unite Nature 's forces within one framework suggest that monopoles should have been produced in the early stages of the Universe : and just over a year ago Blas Cabrera , a researcher at Stanford University , thought he might have found one ( New Scientist . |
| 19 | A list of regularly-occurring dream objects that are accepted by psychoanalysts as sexual symbols produced 102 symbols for a penis and just over half that number for sexual intercourse itself . |
| 20 | It 's a big guitar , 16″ wide across the body and just over 4¾″ deep at the bottom bout , and with handsome-looking wood and satin-finished lacquer throughout it makes an immediate impression . |
| 21 | The Cued Speech programmes varied between 6 months and just over 2 years . |
| 22 | When they did produce statements about the curriculum , about a half used general categories of knowledge , experience and skills ( not related to particular subjects ) , and just over a quarter listed school subjects . |
| 23 | Just over a tenth ( 11–12 per cent ) of each used fixed-term contract workers and just over a fifth ( 22 per cent ) of each used agency workers . |
| 24 | Radical changes in working patterns have yet to happen : apart from doctors in accident and emergency departments fewer than 1% of doctors are working full shifts and just over 2% are working partial shifts . |
| 25 | For example , in October 1974 the Labour Government secured the support of 39.2 per cent of those who voted and just over a quarter of the electorate ; in 1979 the Conservatives gained 43.9 per cent of the vote and the support of around a third of the electorate ; and in 1983 , the Conservative landslide of seats ( their parliamentary majority trebled ) was based on just 42.4 per cent of the vote — less than they got when they lost in 1964 , less than they got in 1979 , the fifth-lowest Conservative vote since the war , and the lowest vote-count by a government with a secure majority since 1922 . |
| 26 | In November 1979 , there were just over 23,000 students taking agriculture courses leading to recognized qualifications in over forty further education establishments in England and Wales ; of these students almost 1,750 were on advanced courses , mainly full-time , and just over 21,300 on non-advanced courses , mainly part-time . |
| 27 | Compared with most other shingle features in the British Isles the beach is a simple though large ridge , reaching its maximum size at the Portland end , where it is 60 m ( 200 yd ) wide and just over 12 m ( 40 ft ) high . |
| 28 | The University has long been a leading centre for research in this field , and just over a year ago Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre ( EPCC ) was established to focus further on these issues . |
| 29 | of applicants were refused community care grant and just over 50 per cent . |
| 30 | The authors show that unqualified mature students in their study had some educational or professional qualification and just over half ( 51% ) met the General Entrance Requirement of their particular university . |