Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [prep] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ . |
| 3 | D do you predict that the the political nature of of the town at least wi will be will be changed in quite a fundamental way if and when the strike ends as a consequence of over this new ? |
| 4 | President Sali Berisha visited the USA on June 15-21 and returned with a promise of over US$60,000,000 in aid , in addition to $35,000,000 already promised on April 29 . |
| 5 | The fastest growing city in the United States , with a population of over one million , Las Vegas , once home to the heavy mob and every form of conceivable vice , has cleaned up its act . |
| 6 | With a turnover of over stlg13m it 's quite a small profit margin for any business to be making but I could still do with tickets being half the price they are . |
| 7 | The annual statistics plotted in Figure 4.1 reveal that the number of births declined by one third from a peak of over one million in 1964 to less than 660,000 in 1977 . |
| 8 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
| 9 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
| 10 | For example , between 1971 and 1981 the eight principal cities of the UK were , on average , losing population at a rate of over 1 per cent per annum . |