Example sentences of "of [adj] overs " in BNC.
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| 1 | Randall and Brearley made a good start , Gower and Willey pressed on well , and at the end of fifty overs they were on 211 . |
| 2 | Surrey needed 421 to win in a minimum of 120 overs — but the Dutch paceman struck with his fourth ball . |
| 3 | Surrey needed 421 to win in a minimum of 120 overs — but the Dutch paceman struck with his fourth ball . |
| 4 | Against typically efficient fast bowling , the pressure was too much and the last seven wickets fell in the space of 12 overs . |
| 5 | Miandad extended his 59 to 88 before edging Munton to slip , giving the affable Warwickshire man his first Test wicket in a spell of 10 overs during which he took 1 for 22 , real Angus Fraser stuff . |
| 6 | Rose may have claimed the bowling honours but there was a neat spell of off spin from schoolboy Jonathon Walsh , who conceded only 15 runs from his full allotment of 10 overs . |
| 7 | Set 329 to win in a minimum of 73 overs , Zimbabwe made no effort to go for the total . |
| 8 | After early rain cleared , the Test started at 2.15pm on Thursday , with 59 instead of 90 overs to be bowled . |
| 9 | The rule says : ‘ Over rates shall be assessed on 15 overs per hour , i.e. a minimum of 90 overs in a six-hour day , subject to the following deductions . ’ |
| 10 | The South Africans nevertheless made a good start , reaching 79 for one in the 20th over , but the loss of the assured Hudson ( 50 in 66 balls ) and of Kirsten in the space of three overs left the middle order with a daunting task . |
| 11 | Sunday league matches would be of 50 overs a side instead of the existing 40 , and group preliminary matches in the Benson and Hedges Cup would be replaced by a knock-out competition . |
| 12 | Seven tiny islands , including the United States and British Virgins , were visited , and six one-day matches of 50 overs each and two three-day ‘ first-class ’ matches against the Leewards were played . |
| 13 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 14 | The players at Bridgetown , and the umpires , took that to mean that 90 overs in a day would be reduced by time in proportion to wickets take ; i.e. eight wickets=16 minutes=four overs=a minimum of 86 overs for the day . |
| 15 | However , one rarely sees a completion of those overs in the allotted time . |
| 16 | With a minimum of 110 overs a day , they do , it is true , enable the batting bore to take root on bland pitches . |
| 17 | Pringle bowled a particularly good opening spell of five overs for six runs , which augurs well for the Test match as he had struggled to find his rhythm previously . |
| 18 | The World Cup Committee adhered strictly to the letter of their own rain-laws that ‘ in matches where play is interrupted or delayed the number of overs are to be rearranged so that both teams have the opportunity of batting for a minimum of 15 overs ( 25 overs in the semi-finals and finals ) according to the number of overs calculated on a basis of an average rate of 14 overs per hour . ’ |
| 19 | The World Cup Committee adhered strictly to the letter of their own rain-laws that ‘ in matches where play is interrupted or delayed the number of overs are to be rearranged so that both teams have the opportunity of batting for a minimum of 15 overs ( 25 overs in the semi-finals and finals ) according to the number of overs calculated on a basis of an average rate of 14 overs per hour . ’ |
| 20 | Their direction was poor and in the first 12 overs they conceded 12 wides and no-balls , so it was an unexpected bonus when Donald , with the last delivery in his first spell of four overs , had Haynes caught at backward square-leg . |
| 21 | League leaders South scraped the bonus point at where the minimum requirement of 20 overs were bowled in the second innings . |