Example sentences of "be over a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There looked to be over a pound of the delicious , translucent sweets the bag was bursting , spilling over so that a dozen or more lay scattered on the dusty floor , gleaming like diamonds through the wrappers .
2 No , it 's been , it 's been over a period of two or three years ?
3 Yet three quarters of all personal car journeys are over a distance of five miles or less .
4 Moorish Spain came into being over a period of several hundred years — from the period of the first Moslem conquest in the eighth century , to the eventual re-conquest by Christians from the north of the peninsula in the later part of the thirteenth century .
5 That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital .
6 Hunter , 25 , who had to have a spleen removed after a tackle by a Japanese player during the Student World Cup in Italy last summer , is back in full training and is over a bout of tonsillitis .
7 Payment is over a number of years .
8 The strike by finance staff is over a demand for a regrading of pay levels to take into account work involved with the council tax .
9 The couple exerted by this stress is over a length of cylinder l and this is the total couple M exerted on the inner cylinder , since this couple must be the same at all radii .
10 ‘ Villette ’ starts in the narrator 's girlhood , and takes place over several years ; ‘ The Catcher in the Rye ’ is over a period of three or four days .
11 Like Nicholle , Nicholle 's over a couple of thousand saved for a car .
12 The earlier row was over a decision by magistrates in Aylesbury to let two offendors wipe out a thousand pounds in fines by spending a few hours in police cells .
13 The dispute was over a mixture of issues , the Left or Bevanites being somewhat anti-American , opposed to rearmament , opposed to charges being introduced into the health service and , it was assumed , in favour of the traditional public ownership approach of the party .
14 Before the year was over a number of significant changes had occurred : a new director ( Dr B. B. Lloyd ) arrived ; London gave notice that it intended to stop bulk entry to the external system ; and D. R. A. Mobbs was appointed a principal lecturer in biology .
15 The way ahead was over a mound of sand .
16 One of the worst clashes was over a batch of photographs Jane had taken in North Africa .
17 It was over a titbit on the floor and occurred after a period when they growled at each other at feeding time .
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