Example sentences of "[prep] well over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the year 2000 , a world market worth over £5 billion at retail prices suggests a margin of well over £2 billion for retailers . |
| 2 | The island 's 20m people now have an income per head of well over $7,000 a year . |
| 3 | Private sector investment of well over £1 billion will be attracted into the area and 4,800 homes will be built , of which a quarter will be low-cost social housing . |
| 4 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 5 | All the same , constituency party membership rose that year to 265,763 , an increase of well over 10% on 1943.35 With the sudden break-out of the armies from the Normandy bridgehead , it looked as if what Churchill called the ‘ German war ’ was about to come to its conclusion ; and , as we have seen , in October 1944 , when the Commons once more renewed the electoral truce for a year , it was Churchill himself who said that this would be the signal for the dissolution of the coalition . |
| 6 | It remained a guinea , believe it or not , until 1969 when it increased to a more realistic £10. £10 in 1969 is the equivalent of well over £70 today , and another increase is long overdue . |
| 7 | Our Coffee Mornings have raised a total of well over £2,200 . |
| 8 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
| 9 | Over 150 participants attended of varied backgrounds , with well over 20% from the school sector within Britain . |
| 10 | BBC1 is very popular , while UTV goes into well over 50pc of homes in the Republic . |
| 11 | It seems that in the course of 1960s church attendance in the province dropped from well over 80% to 25% , while the Quebec birth-rate has become one of the lowest in Canada . |
| 12 | The decision means that annual government support for the railways will have dropped from well over £1 billion to around £300 million in 10 years . |
| 13 | Last year , the Newport office , whose practice relied largely on small clients , saw its fee income drop from well over £1m to £760,000 . |
| 14 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 15 | The offer is believed to be worth well over £1 million , though the Midlands club will face competition from big Premier League clubs . |
| 16 | When this operation was completed our shore unit moved in to seize a total of 196 kilos of cannabis which in those days was worth well over £300,000 , while Alert intercepted Cornish Lady before she was able to escape . |
| 17 | In Brunei oil and gas accounts for well over 90% of exports . |
| 18 | Commonly called yellow fumitory , it comes up like mustard and cress at the foot of every shady wall in the garden and I used to wrench it out with the ruthlessness I used on sycamore seedlings until I discovered it on sale in a nursery for well over £1 a plant . |
| 19 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 20 | A perfectly satisfactory standard total hip replacement could be marketed for not much over £100 , but the price in Britain now varies from £250 to well over £1000 for each implant . |
| 21 | This is a species capable of growing to well over 12″ in length in double-quick time , under the right conditions . |
| 22 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 23 | Depending on your age and the premium you choose starting from as little as 25p a day — the Plan can provide cover to well over £14,000 . |
| 24 | Depending on your age and choice of premium , the Plan can provide cover to well over £14,000 |
| 25 | This VAT rate increase would raise about 10,000 million , amounting to well over 10% of our 30% standard rate of tax . |
| 26 | A survey of 4,020 such companies by Glasgow-based JDH Consultants shows that several hundred , whose sales range from £10,000 to well over £1m , are paying fees of £1,000 or £2,000 . |
| 27 | Spending on social security has increased by 41% over and above inflation — to well over £1 billion per week . |
| 28 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 29 | Although there is no such thing as a typical CD-I development budget , we can gain some sense of the scale of cost involved from the fact that many of the discs currently in production are budgeted at well over £250,000 . |
| 30 | Her net contribution to the EEC budget now stands at well over £2 billion every year — a cost equivalent to that of building over a hundred National Health Service hospitals . |