Example sentences of "little over [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
4 | It is a little over a century since the first Protestant missionaries arrived in Brazil . |
5 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
6 | Whilst a little over a third of employers thought there was no difference , those employers who did state a preference were , in almost all cases , more likely to prefer other recruits to young people . |
7 | It should be noted that Optimus say the tank should only be filled to two-thirds of capacity — a little over a tenth of a litre . |
8 | A little over a mile from Lucca , a turning leads to a vast park of age old oak , cork and bay trees surrounding the Villa San Michele , jealously guarding its serenity . |
9 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
10 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
11 | A little over a year ago he married Miss Doris Pike , daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Pike , of 6 , The Crescent , Halfway . |
12 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
13 | The normal period between contract and completion is a little over a month , but the Lois Scribener rules must be taken into account in fixing a date , as … considerable delays … can occur in obtaining replies to Land Registry searches . |
14 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
17 | British Summer Time ) and the news was reported to the UK Accidents Investigation Branch ( AIB ) of the Department of Trade a little over an hour later . |
18 | The walk takes a little over an hour . |
19 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
20 | ‘ 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 . |
21 | Fräulein Müller , who had given a start upon first hearing her name , stumbled a little over the words as she replied , |
22 | Perhaps he does go a little over the top with the rubato in the slow movement of K332 , but no-one could really object to such sincere intentions when they are delivered with such conviction and zest . |
23 | The Quad X has six separate effects loops , which at first glance may seem a little over the top , but in reality is not such a bad idea . |
24 | O for the Wings of a Dove gave everyone pleasure , with Paul stumbling a little over the notes , but gaining poise with the full-throated singing of Dinah , true to the note , like a thrush , or perhaps a nightingale . |
25 | One reviewer , John Naughton in The Observer , went a little over the top when he remarked : ‘ How does Mr Gooch know all this ? |
26 | This has changed only a little over the years , but more recently the need for some sort of central policy for the area has increased . |
27 | A few hours later he was at a mega Hollywood party , the Welsh wonder from Stratford-upon-Avon , declaiming Shakespeare , drinking soundly , reciting Dylan Thomas , singing , story-telling , perhaps a little over the top , one or two thought , but to the majority a marvellous new whirlwind of talent and animal energy . |
28 | In the Eighties , his particular brand of show-off chic seemed a little over the top when compared to the cool abstractions of the Japanese or the haute-bourgeoise looks coming out of Paris . |
29 | Such investigators as Rowntree , A. L. Bowley and L. Chiozza Money demonstrated that the disparity between rich and poor and the proportion of the population living in severe poverty changed little over the period . |
30 | Although the literary effusions of Hurtley and Wordsworth and the exaggerated landscapes of James Ward and J. M.W. Turner seem a little over the top to us dwellers in the twentieth century ( who , since the advent of the camera and the picture postcard , like our landscape more real and our prose less flowery ) , the scar nevertheless overhangs and dominates the scene as an example of the incredible forces at work when the landscape we now see was formed . |