Example sentences of "[prep] just over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 2 | Murphy wanted her to stay by the first fire of the autumn and be waiting there with the tea table , as Aunt Emily had always done ; but he knew , after just over two months of Alexandra 's rule , that it was pointless even to look his disapproval . |
| 3 | For example , Britain received $3.2billion of the $12.8billion Marshall money — worth just over 7 per cent of all our imports of goods and services over the five years . |
| 4 | At yesterday 's price of 443p , his family stake is worth just over £1.2bn — a lot of dough . |
| 5 | For the same period last year exports were 78,000 tonnes worth just over £170 million . |
| 6 | Tony is favourite to win the Scottish masters Competition which started at Westburn Park today … first prize is worth just over two and a half thousand pounds … |
| 7 | Darren Bicknell ( 33 ) and Alistair Brown smashed 56 off just over five overs — Bicknell hooking Mark Ilott for six in the paceman 's opening over while Brown 's 36 came off 21 balls and included two sixes and two fours . |
| 8 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 9 | But I was walking in the market place , shortly after , only about just over a week after , and I met an old fellow who had retired from Hello Graham ! |
| 10 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 11 | McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured . |
| 12 | Textiles accounted for just over a third , after a slight increase that got through to profit . |
| 13 | Textiles accounted for just over a third , after a slight increase that got through to profit . |
| 14 | The Bush administration is proud of the pioneering use of emissions-trading in the clean-air act , which it hopes will cut sulphur-dioxide output for just over half the cost of equivalent regulation . |
| 15 | BMW has — and it 's an interesting move , especially for those who covet a 5-Series on a low budget — a ‘ 5 ’ for just over £17,000 ! |
| 16 | In the first quarter of 1992 , as diesel car sales reached a record 11.35 per cent , Citroen , Peugeot and Rover models with this engine accounted for just over half of the 46,114 diesel models sold in the U.K. |
| 17 | In Wilson 's first defeat by a British competitor over this distance for 2½ years the two swam neck and neck for just over half the race before Akers suddenly pulled ahead as he searched for an Olympic qualifying time . |
| 18 | In-house work , which included scientific support projects as well as research , accounted for just over a quarter of the expenditure . |
| 19 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 20 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 21 | Christine 's been married to Doc D for just over a year now . |
| 22 | The first Sunday School Superintendent was Mr Alfred Lowe and he remained Superintendent for just over nine years . |
| 23 | Now one in seven of all university applicants in the UK select Bristol among their choices , creating a situation in which 26,000 applications are now received for just over 2,000 places . |
| 24 | The machine gave good service for just over a year and then I bought my next one on interest-free credit . |
| 25 | He had lived in the caravan now for just over two years , supported by a research grant from his northern university to study the effect of the Industrial Revolution on the rural industries of East Anglia . |
| 26 | It 's of medium size with accommodation for just over 200 people . |
| 27 | Inghams , for example , is offering a two-bedroom apartment with a huge living room overlooking the Matterhorn in the four star Hotel Ambassador in Zermatt in mid March for just over £300 for a week each , if it 's occupied by six people . |
| 28 | In terms of current government spending , the most important item is social security , which accounts for just over a quarter of all public expenditure . |
| 29 | On page 16 ANDY PARKES accommodates and buys an extraordinary number of Oddball fish for just over £250 . |
| 30 | Eric Alston 's sprinter led the field for the first Sunday race at Doncaster a merry dance under Lester Piggott for just over five furlongs before fading behind Savoyard . |