Example sentences of "[prep] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After over a decade of fighting , Basil defeated Samuilo at the battle of Kleidon in 1014 . |
| 2 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
| 3 | After about forty minutes Van Gelder moved up into the bows with a portable six-inch searchlight which , on such a clear night , had an effective range of over a mile . |
| 4 | Often the outfall will be off-site and it may be necessary to provide a storm water sewer of over a mile to achieve an outfall acceptable to the water authority . |
| 5 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
| 6 | Most of them are not able to manage the walk of over a mile to the A6 to catch the Lancaster- Preston bus |
| 7 | The walk of over a mile to the nearest bus stop on the A6 can be very off-putting in bad weather . |
| 8 | Like her earlier Stand We At Last , which told the story of over a century of Western feminism , Daddy 's Girls shows Zoë Fairbairns to be adept at recreating detail and charting the changes in character 's lives as years pass . |
| 9 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
| 10 | The cornerstone of over a century of Russian diplomacy was laid with the signing of a formal alliance with Austria in 1726 . |
| 11 | The poor girl had gone off to her camp before she had formulated any hypotheses ; she had no idea as to what theory or concepts her work was to throw new light on , and so , to be on the safe side , she had recorded everything she could think of over a period of about six weeks and her notebooks practically filled a medium-sized suitcase . |
| 12 | The coats were ornately if not fabulously stitched with over a mile of gold thread . |
| 13 | Might this , one wonders , be one of the names that Albert Gunther so helpfully supplied Gould with over a chop at the British Museum ? |
| 14 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
| 15 | Moran 's commitment was legendary in over a decade at Old Trafford and nothing has changed . |
| 16 | In August , she was still working at Chessington-Harris as Leo 's secretary ; but for over a year their relationship had been considerably warmer than any of their colleagues realized . |
| 17 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 18 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 19 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 20 | Her iconography remained more or less constant for over a century until the period of the Napoleonic Wars , at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 22 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 23 | The mill was owned and operated by successive members of the Tayloe family for over a century , until it was eventually sold by Hester Tayloe . |
| 24 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 25 | Its ten pavilions were to serve Paris for over a century and to take their place in the city 's folklore . |
| 26 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
| 27 | For over a century the presence of large urban markets , which need much fresh milk , has encouraged the farmers to keep dairy cows . |
| 28 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 29 | Darwin 's explanation of bright colour has lain dormant and untested for over a century . |
| 30 | Be that as it may , Arnold 's and Van Praagh 's schools laid the foundations for over a century of controversy and the beginning of the end of sign-language-dominated educational systems . |