Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To complement this wonderful collection of textiles the Gordon Reece Gallery has amassed over a thousand old and rare examples of jewellery from many of the great Tribal craft traditions of the world . |
| 2 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 3 | A female emperor moth , in a cage in a wood , transmitting a perfume undetectable to our nostrils , has attracted over a hundred huge males from the surrounding countryside within three hours . |
| 4 | So far , I have found three of these artefacts on a site that has produced over a thousand 18th–19th century items . |
| 5 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 6 | The book by Bram Stoker and published at the end of the last century has sold over a million copies . |
| 7 | We 'll have to check them out of course , but it looks as if Comrade Chatterton has sold over a hundred thousand pounds ’ worth of wine in the last ten years . ’ |
| 8 | The clean-up alone has cost over a billion dollars — and is still going on . |
| 9 | At times this has involved over a hundred Rentokil staff on site at one time . |
| 10 | — Graham Robb , Tory candidate for hartlepool , said a three-year-old girl whose father claims she has waited over a year for surgery is to get her operation . |
| 11 | Just after 7am and the early morning October haze lifts to reveal over a hundred staff from Pest Control London . |