Example sentences of "[vb past] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas Telford ( q.v. ) built over a thousand bridges in his native country when he was commissioned to improve communications throughout the Highlands . |
| 2 | It was begun in 1084 and built over a seventh century church which now forms a crypt . |
| 3 | Protests culminated in a mass rally in St James Hall on 21 August , followed by an open-air meeting next day which drew over a quarter of a million people . |
| 4 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 5 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 6 | That vote condemned over a million workers to poverty pay . |
| 7 | An investigation by the Building Research Establishment a few years ago identified over a thousand different kinds of faults in new homes under construction . |
| 8 | Writing in 1957 , Whiteley identified over a hundred language groups in mainland Tanzania , many of which were extremely small . |
| 9 | Apart from his early technical drawings , he painted over a hundred water-colours during a visit to Italy , Egypt , and Nubia in the winter of 1874–5 . |
| 10 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 11 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 12 | A deep intake of breath he clearly heard over a thousand miles away . |
| 13 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 14 | You have heavy commitments , a flat on which you probably spent over a hundred and fifty thousand pounds , a Porsche to run , and a suitably lavish way of life , no doubt . |
| 15 | When Greig went for 116 , Snow supported Knott , who spent over an hour in the nineties before reaching the same score as his captain , and when the tail went quickly the total was 387 . |
| 16 | Mr Gros , 57 , said : ‘ We spent over an hour trying to revive one , but it was too late . ’ |
| 17 | No bomb was found after a search of the ground with tracker dogs and when the game eventually started over a hour late , both teams , level at 1–1 after the first leg went at each other in an explosive start . |
| 18 | Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn but lost over a minute on the run back . |
| 19 | Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn , but lost over a minute on the run back . |
| 20 | Irish 25-mile ladies champion Claire Moore gave Trainor Solicitors a home win in the ladies championship after Aishling Baird ( Phoenix CC ) had led her to the turn , but lost over a minute on the run back . |
| 21 | Using a stray plank , and ropes thrown over by those inside , they scrambled over a 12ft wall into the embassy grounds . |
| 22 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 23 | This included over a million people living on incomes below the poverty line ( a point I return to later ) . |
| 24 | Since Robert Maxwell died over a year ago , and the lid was blown off the pension scandal , about 250 million pounds of the missing money has been recovered . |
| 25 | Table 6.5 reveals a slight contraction in this sector during the 1970s , but nevertheless in 1980 it still represented over a third of the economically active population for the region as a whole . |
| 26 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its Inmos Ltd T9000 Transputer-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 27 | Parsys Ltd has at last been able to follow up the statements of intent it issued over a year ago with the formal announcement of its T9000-based SN9000 series parallel computers . |
| 28 | Brazil has been boosted both by David Byrne , whose new Latin big band made such an impression here last week , and the dance hit , Lambada , by Kaoma , which sold over a million and a half copies in France and became the best-selling European single of the year . |
| 29 | First published ( under a different title ) in 1909 , it eventually sold over a million copies and was translated into 25 languages . |
| 30 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |