Example sentences of "[adj] over a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yellow eels have been caught in a Scandinavian estuary , tagged and released in another over a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | The carved balconies , some over a hundred feet high , were lined with disintegrating Tau-Taus which gave the very sinister impression of watchful armies of waking dead . |
| 3 | Oh two forty over a hundred , times four . |
| 4 | So you 're working out what your fractions are so forty over a hundred is four times ten lots of four over ten lots of ten . |
| 5 | Twelve and a half per cent 's going to be twelve and a half over a hundred , er , oh , well , we 're going to cancel , but first of all we could go the opposite way , and multiply , just to get rid of this fraction . |
| 6 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 7 | Well three percent 's just three over a hundred . |
| 8 | Three over a hundred yeah . |
| 9 | Banbury had a completely new suburb significantly called Newland added to the older town between 1250 and 1285 , only a little over a hundred years after it had been first founded , a mark of its success , while Eynsham , also in Oxfordshire , has a neat rectangular block of properties , bisected by Newland Street which dates from 1215 when a charter was acquired for an extension . |
| 10 | Compared with 1970 , the Liberal vote nearly trebled : at over six million , this vote represented more than half of the votes going to each of the main parties against little over a sixth in 1970 . |
| 11 | With its population reduced to little over a tenth of pre-plague levels , many villages were abandoned , and much of the Empire became wasteland . |
| 12 | If he had put a second £100 into the FT-SE index each time he bought from the state , the resulting shares would now be worth only a little over a third more than he paid . |
| 13 | Between 1838 and 1859 over a dozen important books were published on the subject as well as a host of articles . |
| 14 | okay and we 've got opposite over a hundred and twenty at the moment and we want we just want opposite . |
| 15 | er the figure is well over a thousand pounds . |
| 16 | Olive trees can grow to be well over a thousand years old . ’ |
| 17 | And as I recall as a child there were well over a hundred ponies down Pit at that time , because during the nineteen twenty one strike they brought them all up to the surface and put them in the fields and I used to go with my father to sort of look after them . |
| 18 | There are now well Over a hundred such impact structures claimed on earth . |
| 19 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 20 | The way it was done , with absolutely no warning , was traumatic for the staff and startling for its subscribers , of whom there were well over a million . |
| 21 | Peskibe continues to thrive , operational profits there are now well over a million a week and I think it 's worth remembering that one subscriber may have three subscriptions say to two movie channels and one sports channels and if you count these individually , it means that we now have four point nine million subscriptions achieved during the second worst recession , recession this century . |
| 22 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 23 | We 've got , we do n't know how many over a hundred is equal to one over four . |
| 24 | It 's just sixty over a hundred . |
| 25 | Well it just means sixty over a hundred , |
| 26 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 27 | And you could write it out as seventy eighty over a hundred and twenty . |
| 28 | Two hundred and then work out thirty five over a hundred of that , |
| 29 | Twenty five over a hundred . |
| 30 | So twenty five over a hundred , okay ? |