Example sentences of "[verb] well [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |
| 2 | The elections , which involved well over a quarter of the electorate , were seen both as a dress rehearsal for the North-Rhine Westphalian Land elections in May next year and as a test of the political mood in the country . |
| 3 | Between 1982 and 1987 , Brazil paid back some $70 billion to its public and private creditors — averaging well over a billion dollars a month — and its only reward was to be $20 billion deeper in debt than in 19821 . |
| 4 | We 've invested well over a million pound in micro-computers for the teaching of pupils right across the three phases of first , middle , and upper schools . |
| 5 | ‘ It may take well over a year but I would hope to make a 95pc recovery . |
| 6 | hospitals are treating well over a million more people a year as in-patients |
| 7 | When you consider that these days we are running well over a second faster , your can see by how much British sprinting has advanced . |
| 8 | but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep |
| 9 | Salami are usually air-dried at a constant temperature during which time they lose well over a quarter and up to a third of their original weight through evaporation of the water content . |
| 10 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 11 | Late last night he was believed to have taken well over a third of all the votes cast in the Sicilian capital . |
| 12 | I think we 're the better all round team when playing well so a win is certainly not out of the question . |
| 13 | When it is complete , the slender glass and steel tube , standing well over a quarter of a mile high and with a base diameter of only 43 metres , will soar above and keep watch over the garden of fin de siècle delights at La Défense . |
| 14 | Er , I used not to do that , I used to put everything in one list , and then my home telephone was cut off one time , er , because I just never regarded the personal things as being terribly important until , you know , I do n't have to pay well over a hundred quid to get the thing fixed again . |
| 15 | We have now licensed well over a hundred cable TV networks and this new industry expects to invest £3,000 million over the next five years . |
| 16 | It numbered well over a million men by Nicholas 's day . |
| 17 | you know , part of me was thinking well just a minute you know this service is if blind people can offer describers , but on the other hand people are entitled to go away on holiday |
| 18 | There would be a frantic dive for the wash-basins as soon as the show finished , as most theatres still only had one basin in dressing-rooms that held well over a dozen Girls . |