Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | An A4 page scanned at 300dpi needs just over a megabyte of storage , the same page scanned at 16 levels of grey would need 4 megabytes . |
| 2 | The latter has just over a length in hand on the watch and one could not fault her smart performance last time from the trap three she occupies once again . |
| 3 | From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis . |
| 4 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 5 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 6 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 7 | Modelled here by Adele Curry , a student at the Blackpool and Flyde College of Hair and Beauty , the amazing creation which took two weeks to complete and stands well over a foot high is in celebration of Blackpool Tower 's £13 million transformation into Tower World . |
| 8 | This happens only over a limited Reynolds number range . |
| 9 | " And the beauty of it , " he says now over a cold beer in a Manhattan restaurant , " was that I did n't know any better . |
| 10 | The efficiency of these ingredients wears off over a period of time , and swimming , towel- drying and perspiration can speed up this process . |
| 11 | The cocked fist in a reverse punch travels just over a metre to its target . |
| 12 | In so doing the newcomers have contributed to the sense of urban encroachment on rural political affairs among farmers and landowners which goes back over a much longer period , and which has been associated with changes in the institutions of political control in the countryside : the gradual decline in the personalized and autocratic power of the locally resident squirearchy and the transfer of public administration to a more formal and impersonal framework of local government since local politics were first placed on a democratic footing in 1888 . |
| 13 | The behaviour persists continuously over a period of time . |
| 14 | The wallet-sized Portfolio weighs just over a pound , yet opens out to reveal a qwerty keyboard and an eight line by 40 column display . |
| 15 | weighs well over a ton , and serves as a reminder |
| 16 | However , although the first part is quiet , the quietness is deadly — it is the still of a battlefield after a battle — the sort of picture you have is one of a film of war where the previous scene has been fast , tense and confusing with loud , dramatic music and scenes of battle and suddenly everything becomes quiet as the camera moves slowly over a battle field strewn with bodies — this is the sort of stillness of these lines — the stillness of death . |
| 17 | Andy and William are standing on a seat ; Andy leans out over a table laden with glasses , a champagne bottle in one hand and his other arm held by William , who leans out the opposite way to balance him . |
| 18 | The first fairway extends up over a gentle rise and into a forest of huge , native trees . |
| 19 | The Lu-Fan operates quietly over a period of four minutes , switching off automatically , but it can be restarted immediately if required . |