Example sentences of "a [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lack of humanity , the emotionless sterility , were to become Morrissey 's main motivation in showering the place with flowers a little over a year later . |
| 2 | Jack 's last game for the Palace first team was on Easter Saturday , 3 April 1926 , when he helped Palace to a 1–1 draw at Gillingham , but 7,000 fans turned up for his Benefit match at Selhurst Park a little over a year later to show their appreciation of as fine a player as ever wore the Palace colours . |
| 3 | It was something that he and I talked about over a two-year period , and then he got hit with throat cancer a little over a year ago . |
| 4 | It is a little over a century since the first Protestant missionaries arrived in Brazil . |
| 5 | French museums were alerted to the painting a little over a year ago when its owners contacted them after finding a foreign buyer . |
| 6 | Whilst a little over a third of employers thought there was no difference , those employers who did state a preference were , in almost all cases , more likely to prefer other recruits to young people . |
| 7 | It should be noted that Optimus say the tank should only be filled to two-thirds of capacity — a little over a tenth of a litre . |
| 8 | A little over a mile from Lucca , a turning leads to a vast park of age old oak , cork and bay trees surrounding the Villa San Michele , jealously guarding its serenity . |
| 9 | Matching the change in the range of qualifications of school-leavers has been a dramatic transformation in the youth labour market in a little over a decade . |
| 10 | Abolished just a little over a century ago , it merits just a short paragraph in many school textbooks . |
| 11 | A little over a year ago he married Miss Doris Pike , daughter of Mr and Mrs M. Pike , of 6 , The Crescent , Halfway . |
| 12 | The King could legitimately refuse a request to dissolve for the third time in a little over a year . |
| 13 | The normal period between contract and completion is a little over a month , but the Lois Scribener rules must be taken into account in fixing a date , as … considerable delays … can occur in obtaining replies to Land Registry searches . |