Example sentences of "well above " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Objections to be heard by the Deputy Lieutenants — all honourable men , I am sure , and well above military age . |
| 2 | That is to say , they behave like three-year-olds on false belief tasks even if their mental ages are , by other criteria , well above three years . |
| 3 | Though the policy has been to raise the price of long-distance season tickets well above the average , for thousands there is still standing room only on the high-speed commute . |
| 4 | The 1989 deficit is estimated at $161.4bn , well above the $136bn target required under the 1987 revision and the $72bn target contained in the original legislation . |
| 5 | This suggests that any bid would be pitched well above the suspension price . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , assisted and deliberately encouraged by various tax remissions , an increasing number of people are covered , to an increasing extent , by non-state pension schemes , many of which provide benefits well above subsistence . |
| 7 | Although well above the best wages of a skilled man , it was neither market-determined nor received by all registered professionals . |
| 8 | Volume levels held well above 400million . |
| 9 | IN an historic decision to break with Moscow , the Lithuanian Communist Party voted yesterday to declare itself an independent party by more than 5 to 1 , well above the two-thirds majority needed . |
| 10 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed on March 20th at 2,739 , not far below its all-time high of 2,810 on January 2 1990 , and well above this year 's low of 2,553 . |
| 11 | The figure for companies ' cash , deposits and marketable securities relative to their quarterly sales was 63% in 1990 , well above the 45% or so that was normal between 1974 and 1986 , before the liquidity boom . |
| 12 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 13 | In considering whether these reasons are strong enough , we should not neglect the fact that some offences of manslaughter lie well above the lower boundaries of liability and fall little short of murder . |
| 14 | Even from this distance Mungo also noticed that their heads were shaved to a line well above the ears , like medieval monks . |
| 15 | Take care to keep the swollen union of fruit trees — where the top growth is grafted on to the root stock — well above ground level . |
| 16 | OIL production by member states of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries dropped 900,000 barrels a day to 23.5m last month but remains well above the cartel 's target level of 22.9m for the first half , the International Energy Agency has said . |
| 17 | The cost of private medical insurance is rising well above the rate of inflation , while compensation specialists doubt whether firms get ‘ value for money ’ from incentives . |
| 18 | Allsop 's auction was a record sell-out , with all but two of 111 lots sold for a total of £6.3 million , and other auction houses reported successful sales with average prices well above the guides . |
| 19 | The construction of this giant-eyed trilobite suggests that it lived an actively swimming life well above the bottom , and possibly in the surface waters of the sea . |
| 20 | Irina , who did not dress up for Ludens , was wearing a simple faded old dress , frail with much washing , the sleeves rolled up well above her elbows . |
| 21 | From his own height of well above six feet , Clive Fairbrother was always surprised to find himself looking down on Richard 's imperiously poised head . |
| 22 | The later rotations , if they can be truly so called , burned up the fertility capital at a rate well above true potential . |
| 23 | On top of all this , the police received , during the autumn of 1988 , an average pay rise of 8.5 per cent , well above the rate of inflation at the time . |
| 24 | One of them — it looked like Chuck — was safely on the ridge , well above the point where the slope ended and dropped dizzily into the yawning throat of the quarry , but the bigger boy , Dick , was much nearer the edge — perilously near , Sheila thought . |
| 25 | How would you describe the percentage of workers in service industries in South West England : ‘ about average ’ , ‘ above average ’ , ‘ well above average ’ , or ‘ slightly above average ’ ? |
| 26 | Ben Nevis ( 1347 m ) , near Fort William , stood well above the ice . |
| 27 | Some of it , though , rises well above mediocrity ; and the part he played in popularising the Lake District was unquestionable . |
| 28 | Its purpose is to survey systematically the whole sky in the infrared , from a vantage point well above the obscuring effects of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 29 | IRAS 's orbit takes it round the Earth every 100 minutes , passing within 9o of the poles on a path 900 km high , well above the water vapour in Earth 's atmosphere which absorbs much of the infrared radiation from space . |
| 30 | Unemployment in the area was not the highest in the North Side , but well above the city average ; owner-occupancy was also low at around 30 per cent . |