Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he engaged in some pastoral work in the years after his ordination , preaching and hearing confessions , his time was spent almost entirely in the papal civil service and , until the appointment to Germany for just over a decade , almost entirely in Rome . |
| 2 | She 's been with them now for just over a month , and Angelica has never known a worker like her . |
| 3 | Mark Farmer who 's already recorded the fastest lap of just over a 120 miles an hour is teaming up with Robert Dunlop … they ride over six laps … |
| 4 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 5 | Third at the last fence , he passed Royal Mail and with just over a furlong to go was finishing so strongly that it looked as if he must catch Aldaniti . |
| 6 | Right : P&O Roadtanks driver , Ken Burgess , sees the end in sight as he runs along The Mall with just over a mile to go |
| 7 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 8 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 9 | Three cocaine smugglers have died in just over a month after swallowing their contraband to beat searches . |
| 10 | Just think what Stuttgart , say , was able to put together in just over a decade . |
| 11 | In just over a decade , their ambitious goal to reach every village in the islands is close to being realised with more than 4,300 workshops covering a wide range of development issues . |
| 12 | WAYNE McCullough turned up the heat again last night for his third victory in just over a month . |
| 13 | Despite the difficulties of his predicament however , Gould managed to return to Sydney in just over a fortnight after writing his letter to Eliza . |
| 14 | ‘ I certainly did n't need my boss , Tim Dunton , informing me that when I reach the ripe old age of twenty-six , in just over a month 's time , it 's going to be definitely downhill all the way ! ’ |
| 15 | Lloyd reached 100 in just 128 balls with a six and 11 boundaries in a thrilling run blitz as England A raced to 300 for five declared , leaving Western Australia to score 402 for victory in just over a day . |
| 16 | New patterns for External Verification are being developed but are being phased in gradually over a longer timescale . |
| 17 | Giving away 6lbs , Reg Hollinshead 's colt lost nothing in defeat , only buckling in the shadow of the post , having been under heavy pressure from well over a furlong out . |
| 18 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 19 | The brewery is unique in many respects , especially as a result of the outstanding beauty of its buildings , pond and meticulously maintained surroundings , this being due in no small part to the fact that it has remained in the hands of the Arkell family for well over a century . |
| 20 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 21 | This went on for well over a month , with the owls flying free in the barn , until we were sure they were confident and happy in their surroundings . |
| 22 | FOR good or ill , D'Oyly Carte has meant Gilbert and Sullivan for well over a century . |
| 23 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 24 | In the United Kingdom the attitude to testing has been more ambivalent , although examinations and tests have played an important part in British education for well over a century . |
| 25 | Government grants to local authorities have now been paid for well over a century . |
| 26 | They know what it 's like to stand on both sides of the competitive fence and have now been involved with the sport for well over a decade , first as top international competitions and then as manager and coach of the national team . |
| 27 | Cotherstone cheese has been discreetly celebrated for well over a century . |
| 28 | He quickly engineered the overthrow of the Conservative and Anglican majorities on the town council and the school board and put in place a political machine which carried all before it for well over a decade . |
| 29 | This riles the anthropologists because theorizing about the rules governing mating between close kin has been a major anthropological preoccupation for well over a century . |
| 30 | Russian statesmen were therefore often badly informed about the politics of the outside world ; and though in 1672 there was an effort to compile for their guidance an official manual of the available information about foreign states this was not published for well over a century . |