Example sentences of "[prep] just over [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I 'm actually about just over ten and a half stone now . |
| 8 | These are two week holidays for just over thirty dinghy sailors at a time . |
| 9 | The first Sunday School Superintendent was Mr Alfred Lowe and he remained Superintendent for just over nine years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's of medium size with accommodation for just over 200 people . |
| 12 | Yes , yeah fourth of September nineteen thirty nine and course erm the erm and six months after the , aft to the day really , I erm went into the forces and served in the Army for just over six years . |
| 13 | The path continues for just over four miles to the cottage at Athnamulloch . |
| 14 | For just over four hours he had resisted while a famous collapse took place , his longest-lasting partner being the unlikely Salisbury . |
| 15 | Participants in the Youth Training Scheme ( YTS ) make up the largest share of these , accounting for nearly nine per cent of all temporary workers , and participants in the Community Programme ( CP ) together with a small number in the Community Industry programme make up almost all the remainder , accounting for just over four per cent . |
| 16 | Today in Britain manufacturing , the well created section of our economy , accounts for just over four million employees from a U K total of twenty five million . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Go down the other side to follow Lingcove Beck for just over two miles , before crossing over the very shallow col separating the Lingcove valley from Mosedale . |
| 21 | Sixteen-year-old Michael , from Stowmarket , has been shooting for just over two years , and his dedication and practice paid off as he came a magnificent third place in the senior compound section . |
| 22 | It drifted the globe for just over two years looking for a port to discharge the ash , and even changed its name to the Pelicano in an attempt to escape detection . |
| 23 | Union officials claimed their members were locked out after the 400 strong workforce , which has been on strike for just over two weeks , met yesterday to consider a management proposal . |
| 24 | The pilots fly just 3 times a day for just over 20 minutes . |
| 25 | McCAW 'S revised offer for just over 50 per cent of LIN Broadcasting is cleverly structured . |
| 26 | Firstly , just to set my own context , I 've been in the health service now for just over twenty year . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Shoaib Mohammad — son of Hanif — had beavered away for just over three hours by now , displaying some pleasing strokes , not unduly encumbered by helmet and sizable rib-protector , seven centuries , three of them doubles , already quietly under his belt in 38 previous Tests . |
| 29 | In Hilary term 1313 he was appointed a justice of the Common Bench and served in that capacity for just over three years . |
| 30 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |