Example sentences of "and a [det] [noun pl] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Alton man , who was caught driving while more than two and a half times over the legal alcohol limit , has been banned from the roads for 22 months . |
| 2 | It was calculated from a breath test taken then that he was nearly one and a half times over the limit for driving at the time of the accident . |
| 3 | DEC UK 's workstation product manager , Tom Yeates , says sales of VAXstations running VMS exceeded targets by two and a half times over the last quarter , something it attributes to increased confidence in VMS due to the launch of the Alpha chip . |
| 4 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 5 | The coroner was told that blood alcohol tests after the accident showed Richard had been one and a half times over the legal drink drive limit . |
| 6 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 7 | An ordinary little firm that has operated perfectly cheerfully with a clerk and a few assistants over the years , is it actually a practical proposition to install the computer and perhaps train one or two of the workers to use it ? |