Example sentences of "[verb] to over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adults grow to over a metre long and generate electricity of up to 300 volts , while even baby electric catfish only 2 centimetres long can produce 10 volts . |
| 2 | The aim is to set up over 50 restaurants within the next five years and to increase to over 10O within 10 years . |
| 3 | ( This was added to over the centuries and culminated as a gigantic mansion of the early 1830s ) . |
| 4 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 5 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 6 | I thought that was a decision he and his father had come to over the weekend . |
| 7 | Erm coming in from er on the A six one two from , er we 've come to over the level crossing there . |
| 8 | The arts world has almost grown accustomed to the hand-to-mouth condition in which it is kept , but what it has not become resigned to over the long period of Tory rule is the positive hostility to its aims and values . |
| 9 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 10 | According to my sample of Hull University students , the dreams of Joseph , the Magi , and so on may have been literally true ( according to over half of those questioned ) , but it seems that it would be naive to conclude that they really believe that communications of this sort are still " possible " — that is , presumably they happened in the Bible by some unique divine intervention which will never be repeated . |
| 11 | There was widespread disappointment in the UK in particular at the small size of the cut in German interest rates , and on Sept. 15 sterling fell to about DM2.78 — just above its permitted floor — while the lira weakened to over DM800 ( around its new central rate ) . |
| 12 | The marker price of Brent light crude had moved to over US$19 per barrel earlier in April , and the OPEC representative basket of crude oils averaged $17.73 per barrel in the period immediately preceding the meeting . |
| 13 | ‘ But people I speak to over there have very little to say about Neil Kinnock and none of them have even heard of Paddy Ashdown . ’ |
| 14 | Much of the hotel industry 's present problems — in addition to reduced volumes and spend levels — are connected to over borrowing during the 1980's . |
| 15 | Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him . |
| 16 | The population dynamics and genetics of these two species in the permanent pasture at Henfaes seemed to over the opportunity to study natural selection in action — Hutchinson 's ‘ ecological theater and evolutionary play ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Among those I have talked to over the past years , ’ he said , ‘ I have found none who believed that Libya alone paid for , planned and carried out the crime — exactly none . ’ |
| 18 | We are now told that , having been lied to over the years , the British people now have the prospect of political union , and they react against it and shy away . |
| 19 | By 1994 , he expects this to grow to over US$24 billion . |
| 20 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 21 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 22 | Since only 39 per cent of India 's population is literate , the government authorises the production of posters and other aids which are mailed to over one million addresses . |
| 23 | You do n't have to over the rocks ! |
| 24 | So , whilst I would n't want to over estimate or under estimate the problem , I think we 've got to keep a balance in that . |
| 25 | On board will be the British-built instrument that will attempt to answer why the Sun 's outer atmosphere — the corona — is heated to over 1 million degrees , boiling off charged particles to produce the solar wind . |
| 26 | The flow of PCAS forms , which by mid-December 1987 amounted to over 16,00() , begins early in October . |
| 27 | I dream of Strathspeld , and the long summers of my childhood passed in a trance of lazy pleasure , ending with that day , running through the woods ( but I turn away from that memory , the way I 've learned to over the years ) ; I wander again through the woods and the small , hidden glens , along the shores of the ornamental lochan and the river and its loch and I 'm standing near the old boathouse in that defeatingly bright sunlight , light dancing on water , and I see two figures , naked and thin and white in the grass beyond the reed beds , and as I watch them the light turns from gold to silver and then to white , and the trees seem to shrink in on themselves , leaves disappearing in the chill coruscations of that enveloping white blaze while the view all around me becomes brighter and darker at once and all is reduced to black and white ; trees are bare and black , the ground smother-smoothed in white and the two young figures are gone , while one even smaller one — booted , gloved , coat-tails flying behind — runs laughing across the white level of the frozen loch . |
| 28 | From about day 80 ( 5 March ) ClO increased to over 0.7p.p.b.v. in Fig. 3 c , corresponding to over 1p.p.b.v. at local noon . |
| 29 | From about day 80 ( 5 March ) ClO increased to over 0.7p.p.b.v. in Fig. 3 c , corresponding to over 1p.p.b.v. at local noon . |
| 30 | So there 's absolutely no benefit in trying to over insure |