Example sentences of "be over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're over a day late because of the blizzards . ’ |
| 2 | You are , you 're over a street ahead . |
| 3 | But it was to be over a month before Dad ‘ turned up ’ again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That 's gon na be over a pound |
| 6 | Perhaps the only way to reach a solution would be over a glass or two at the nineteenth hole . |
| 7 | In many circumstances the service to the University may have been over a period several times the 3 years of undergraduate study . |
| 8 | No , it 's been , it 's been over a period of two or three years ? |
| 9 | Lange admitted that he had " been over a barrel " after the French government had threatened that unless the accord was accepted , New Zealand would be denied access to French markets for its agricultural exports , the mainstay of its economy , |
| 10 | Yet three quarters of all personal car journeys are over a distance of five miles or less . |
| 11 | ‘ In the States , most of the big races are over a mile or ten furlongs and it is becoming trickier by the season to be absolutely sure you have made the right decision . ’ |
| 12 | It was described by Bishop Pontoppidan in the eighteenth century as being over a mile and a half in circumference ; he also said the sea all around it was darkened by the jets of ink it spat out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail . |
| 15 | That is over a metre beyond his previous best , also set in the Victorian capital . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | it is over a decade since the last major restructuring of the departments of government . |
| 18 | Set amidst panoramic views of snow-capped mountains of up to 11,000 feet , the lake is one of earth 's outstanding features ; 400 miles long and up to 50 miles wide , its dazzling blue , crystal clear water is over a mile deep in places and is reckoned to be one fifth of the world 's supply of fresh water . |
| 19 | Payment is over a number of years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I think fish is over a pound , yeah . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | The advertising is in black-and-white and is authentically ‘ French ’ — concentrating on moments or happenings in which French people , young and old , are enjoying their Janneau as a part of their everyday life — relaxed with that indefinable French quality of style which instils ordinary events with a particular panache , whether it be over a meal or simple as a complement to civilised living at any time of day . |
| 25 | Like Nicholle , Nicholle 's over a couple of thousand saved for a car . |
| 26 | One of them 's over a G |
| 27 | " It 's over a night and a day now and I 'm dropping . " |
| 28 | And I always like doing business with a man who knows he 's over a barrel . |
| 29 | Certainly the last letter was dated the beginning of August , that 's over a month ago . |
| 30 | ‘ Yet it 's over a month since we had the news . |