Example sentences of "[prep] over a [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short period , after over a hundred years in the Shurmurs ' hands , the mill was conveyed to William Humphries Bennet and , in 1806 , passed into the hands of John Knowles . |
| 2 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 3 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 4 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 5 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |