Example sentences of "little over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cavaye recommends that caterers buy an extra 10% to 15% more than the number of covers on main items like knives , forks and spoons , double the number for teaspoons and a little over half for fish knives . |
| 2 | One of my best buys was a dovetailer jig costing a little over £100. which represented a saving of £200.00 over the price here . |
| 3 | The highest point on Vengsøya , a little over two thousand feet above the Ocean 's surface , suddenly turns pink . |
| 4 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |
| 5 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 6 | Think of it : a little over £20-a-week per member of the family . |
| 7 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 8 | The stockmarket 's all-time low , remember , was a little over 20,000 , reached at the end of October 1990 . |
| 9 | We entered this war with a little over 41,000,000 souls or roughly 4,500,000 more than in 1914 . |
| 10 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 11 | In her favour , though , was the configuration of the Aqueduct track : at a little over seven furlongs round it is very tight , and demands the pace to lie in a handy position , the balance to negotiate the turns , and the acceleration to dominate the race in the home straight . |
| 12 | ‘ Prices may drift down a little over the next two months , but the losses in the first quarter should be wiped out with similar gains over the next few months , ’ said Mr John Wriglesworth , property analyst at stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 13 | For example , Cambridge , the largest branch in the District with a membership of 250 , serving a population estimated at 67,000 in 1937 had a quota allocation of a little over £24 . |
| 14 | The battle took a little over half an hour . |
| 15 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 16 | He knew the local man to be in his mid-forties , and he adjudged his companion a little over 30 . |
| 17 | The lack of humanity , the emotionless sterility , were to become Morrissey 's main motivation in showering the place with flowers a little over a year later . |
| 18 | He was a little over medium height , with the same complexion and the same dark brown eyes and hair of his elder brother Reginald . |
| 19 | According to Danas ( 9 September 1986 ) , in 1985 the number of persons subject to this tax was a little over 13,000 ( compared with about 9 million persons in employment or self-employment in that year ) , and the tax raised was about 1 3 billion dinars ( compared with a total gross public revenue in that year of 3,736 billion dinars ) . |
| 20 | Stereo broadcasting started a little over six months ago when ITV and Channel 4 officially launched Stereo TV using a new digital sound transmission system , called Nicam . |
| 21 | The tunnel was built by the Leeds and Thirsk Railway , and is a little over two miles in length . |
| 22 | Originally an all-purpose type , it was later developed for milk and yields now average about 3,500kg at a little over 4 per cent butterfat . |
| 23 | Guidelines can be laid out , but your own taste will decide what you will use , and this is especially true where rods are concerned , e.g. when long-range legering for all species other than carp and pike I favour a rod between 11ft and 11ft 6in. in length , a test-curve of a little over 1lb , with a fast-taper action . |
| 24 | Fräulein Müller , who had given a start upon first hearing her name , stumbled a little over the words as she replied , |
| 25 | Jill ( see front page ) is Lizzie 's second surviving daughter and is now a little over two years old . |
| 26 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 27 | To match a 1000ft reel of film which ran for a little over eleven minutes , a 78rpm turntable had to be slowed to 33 1/3rpm ( 18 ) . |
| 28 | Only a few short hours before , the world 's second highest rise of tide had arrived with that familiar roar , and in a little over three hours had filled the mile wide estuary with twenty five feet of salt water . |
| 29 | If this is approved , the invitation would well be followed by a firm brief to produce a paper that could , at the BBC approved rate of reading , last anything from seven minutes to a little over an hour , at your discretion . |
| 30 | The world 's population now stands at a little over four billion . |