Example sentences of "be over a [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Payment is over a number of years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Like Nicholle , Nicholle 's over a couple of thousand saved for a car . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The way ahead was over a mound of sand . |
| 13 | One of the worst clashes was over a batch of photographs Jane had taken in North Africa . |