Example sentences of "over [num] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound |
| 2 | That makes over fifty ponies he 's sold this year that he claims took part . |
| 3 | With more than thirty products selling to over fifty countries it 's a multi million pound business . |
| 4 | Over forty pounds I bet . |
| 5 | For over forty years it was illegal in Indonesia to kill , capture or keep an orang-utan in captivity . |
| 6 | Demolition trains became a regular sight on Sundays during 1987 however , and for the first time in over 30 years it was possible to photograph trains without the hindrance of electric stanchions . |
| 7 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 8 | Over six months I recorded blood spots on the front of a single pair of eye protection glasses ( Surgikos ) . |
| 9 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 10 | If that sounds a lot , bear in mind that over 10 years you 're only paying 22p per night . |
| 11 | For over three hours we talked and talked and still neither brother had returned to the subject that lay foremost in our minds . |
| 12 | Spread over three years it brought in £187,000 . |
| 13 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 14 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 15 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 16 | In just over ten minutes they all sat down . |
| 17 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 18 | For over fifteen minutes she dutifully teased and titillated his slumbering pestle with sweet sucking and gentle licking until finally it answered her patient ministrations . |
| 19 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 20 | For over five kilometres they had seen debris and signs of an ancient fireball which had scorched the earth . |
| 21 | eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for |
| 22 | Worth £25m over five years it is intended to help run elections , launch newspapers , form political parties and build businesses . |
| 23 | ‘ Over five years I gave away about a million quid . |
| 24 | Over five centuries they developed their own art and architecture , which were derived from Greek and oriental sources , but adapted to their needs in Italy . |
| 25 | Over 28 years I 've had two broken marriages and broken homes , family and friends . |
| 26 | For over 40 years we 've built our solid base and sound banking system in the Tokyo metropolitan area , Japan 's vigorous economic centre . |
| 27 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 28 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 29 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 30 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |