Example sentences of "well over [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman will know that the House was advised in the summer of a new scheme to assist people during periods of very cold weather — well over 1 million payments are expected to be made for the recent cold spell . |
| 2 | Despite its very small membership at the start , the FMS soon grew to well over 1 .000 members , with branches in most regions of the country : |
| 3 | Nobody can say for sure when the earliest purpose-made sparkling wine was produced , but documentary evidence exists to prove that the monks of the abbey of St Hilaire in southern France had intentionally produced sparkling wines as early as 1531 , well over one hundred years before anyone attempted to do so in Champagne . |
| 4 | Moreover , the Nonjurors included some of the best scholars of the day , skilful and productive polemicists who made a powerful intellectual impact : well over one hundred political pamphlets are attributable to them . |
| 5 | At the moment the school has three hundred and sixty pupils approximately which is very small compared with others containing well over one thousand . |
| 6 | Unemployment thus remained at well over one million ; more than 10 per cent of the workforce . |
| 7 | Radical historians have stoked the fires , arguing that the bloodthirsty Ustashe slaughtered well over one million Serbs alone . |
| 8 | In 1902 the Trans-Siberian railway carried well over one million passengers , and the statistics of their class breakdown are fascinating : |
| 9 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |