Example sentences of "[verb] over a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barclays , which has over a third of Britain 's credit card customers , says its new system should catch 19 out of 20 plastic cheats . |
| 2 | Who trains health professionals to give better antenatal and breastfeeding support as well as training and sustaining over a thousand of its own teachers and breastfeeding counsellors ? |
| 3 | In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Forest law , courts and officers constituted a mighty system which paralleled the common law itself , and operated over a third of England . |
| 4 | Johnson Matthey continued to lead the market , selling over a third of the autocatalysts fitted to new cars sold around the world . |
| 5 | Today Councillor I M Green , Chairman of Girton Health and Housing Committee , challenged residents at the start of a campaign to promote recycling over a thousand plus tonnes of waste , generated weekly within Girton District . |
| 6 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 7 | Table 6.5 reveals a slight contraction in this sector during the 1970s , but nevertheless in 1980 it still represented over a third of the economically active population for the region as a whole . |
| 8 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 9 | Aldercine 's Active Retirement Club at Luton Regional Sports Centre now number over a hundred on the register — almost half are men ! |
| 10 | Well I 'd want over a hundred for that . |
| 11 | I ask whether with the above words he has entrusted to Pamphilus that after his death he should make over a hundred to the sons of the deceased . |
| 12 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 13 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |
| 14 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 15 | We have over a thousand of them in the country . ’ |
| 16 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |