Example sentences of "well over an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not too far is about eight kilometres , a distance that takes us well over an hour , although time is irrelevant . |
| 2 | Perhaps the best indication is that the initial flight , which was scheduled for 20 minutes , lasted well over an hour . |
| 3 | It took well over an hour for the first 48 delegates — who included no Soviet bloc nation , nor India , nor Burma , nor either of the Chinas , nor a scattering of other countries who could not bring themselves to accept Japan 's word — to file up to the podium to sign . |
| 4 | Jackson shuffled his parables , both Biblical and homespun , and used the gospel preacher 's cadences to entrance the gathering for well over an hour . |
| 5 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 6 | We even had our own bathroom , in whose tub we wallowed for well over an hour . |
| 7 | After well over an hour the race was abandoned as the fleet slowly drifted backwards out of the harbour . |
| 8 | Although I had tarried in the Happy Isles for well over an hour , the actual handjob was the work of a moment — forty-five seconds , I 'd say . |
| 9 | The time spent on training also varied from fifteen minutes to well over an hour . |
| 10 | The Sabena flight out left Edinburgh well over an hour late , so I only had fifteen minutes or so for my Naples transfer at Brussels . |
| 11 | For well over an hour Coleraine laboured against confident opponents ; Ards had got the breakthrough goal , looked more than capable of adding to it , and were cruising towards an all-North Down decider . |