Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] over " in BNC.
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1 | The Oldham-based firm , which manufactures a wide range of healthcare products , from swabs to saline solution and a variety of over the counter medicines and treatments , recently spent more than £1m on extending its Bootle pharmaceutical manufacturing facility , which trades under the name Seton Prebbles . |
2 | Yeah , well he does get a bit of over the top |
3 | With this sensitivity it could easily detect a shrimp from over a metre away for these crustaceans generate tiny electrical fields of up to one thousandth of a volt ( 0.2–1 millivolt ) per centimetre each time they flick their tails . |
4 | The traffic moves at a fast pace and averaging a speed of over one hundred kilometres an hour is not difficult . |
5 | With a turnover of over stlg13m it 's quite a small profit margin for any business to be making but I could still do with tickets being half the price they are . |
6 | There is also a plan for over a 100 turbines in the Cambrian Mountains in Wales . |
7 | The subjects to be covered were diverse , scanning a period of over a century , but they could be arranged in an approximately chronological order . |
8 | Today , it has a membership of over one thousand . |
9 | D do you predict that the the political nature of of the town at least wi will be will be changed in quite a fundamental way if and when the strike ends as a consequence of over this new ? |
10 | The fastest growing city in the United States , with a population of over one million , Las Vegas , once home to the heavy mob and every form of conceivable vice , has cleaned up its act . |
11 | ( Coincidentally the town of Alma-Ata has now a population of over one million and is in Kazakhstan ) . |
12 | From the river 's edge it stretched back on to the plain for a distance of over a kilometre , and he thought that it must contain well over three thousand men . |
13 | They can smell the bombykol released by a single female , at a distance of over a mile . |
14 | Choose a dessert from over the page or serve cheese . |
15 | She seemed to be more pleased with that , and flashing me a grin from over her shoulder went off towards the Clubhouse entrance . |
16 | The precipitation that fell before the Industrial Revolution and was preserved in glaciers and ice sheets is generally found to have a pH of over S and often as high as 6 . |
17 | For example , between 1971 and 1981 the eight principal cities of the UK were , on average , losing population at a rate of over 1 per cent per annum . |
18 | You want a chair for over here for doing |
19 | A drop of over an ounce for a bird Dawn 's size could have seriously damaged her health , and , therefore , her ability to fly . |
20 | ‘ Come on , Angus , ’ Donald persisted , ‘ let us hear a song from over the mountains . |
21 | As sponsor of the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition for the second year , Guinness donated a sponsor 's evening to Marie Curie Cancer Care , whose efforts on the evening raised a total of over –25,000 towards its nursing and other services for cancer patients . |
22 | Those were the figures which he aggregated to produce a total of over one point two million pounds . |
23 | The annual statistics plotted in Figure 4.1 reveal that the number of births declined by one third from a peak of over one million in 1964 to less than 660,000 in 1977 . |
24 | In the case of Britain , Wedderburn ( 1974 , p. 31 ) notes that the failure of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act , many of whose legalistic provisions had US antecedents , ‘ might serve as a warning against over simple enthusiasm for the translation of developments from other countries into the British framework ’ . |
25 | Generally available at 30cm , this fish can reach a length of over one metre . |
26 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
27 | President Sali Berisha visited the USA on June 15-21 and returned with a promise of over US$60,000,000 in aid , in addition to $35,000,000 already promised on April 29 . |
28 | In other instances one finds a tendency to over elaborate , and a heaviness of design ( or an empty , lifeless stylisation ) is the result . |
29 | At a conference in Glasgow , delegates will be told there 's now a network of over one thousand American travel agents dedicated to promoting Scottish holidays . |
30 | During one of his Somerset visits he had already discovered Adscombe , a hamlet of Over Stowey parish not far from Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills . |