Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adv] over " in BNC.
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1 | She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination — and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ‘ fate worse than death ’ , since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble . |
2 | In June the government presented its budget for fiscal 1990/91 which projected a total outlay of taka140,000 million with estimated revenue receipts set at just over taka75,627 million and revenue expenditure at taka73,000 million . |
3 | Unemployment thus remained at well over one million ; more than 10 per cent of the workforce . |
4 | One of the most serious industrial disputes in Australian history , involving the country 's two domestic airlines , caused in the second half of 1989 and early 1990 massive losses to the Australian economy estimated at well over A$1,000 million , in particular in the tourist industry . |
5 | By mid-May the government 's request for emergency relief supplies estimated at just over US$670,000,000 , with an additional US$740,000,000 for reconstruction , had met with pledges totalling only US$450,000,000 . |