Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stewart said events like Europartenariat — a European Community initiative aimed at bringing together over 1,000 companies to form trading links — were important as it could help Scottish companies implement their European strategies by meeting potential business partners . |
| 2 | If -ed , -ing , -er and -tion are all compressed , the tree representing just over 70,000 words would be reduced from 2,628,928 bytes to 1,972,416 bytes . |
| 3 | But the beleaguered taxpayer has just over 12 months to prepare for the changes — by which time the Chancellor hopes an improved economy will soften the blow . |
| 4 | Paul thinks Babur and Mark make a cute couple on the sofa , their diaries open on their laps , Mark over six feet and Babur just over five feet . |
| 5 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 6 | He could come out and jump well over seven metres on no training at all . |
| 7 | Since the mid-50s he has designed well over 100 West End productions and has also worked at the National Theatre , the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Chichester Festival Theatre . |
| 8 | The University as a whole contains well over fifty teachers of history , who between them provide nearly ninety courses — thereby offering students a breadth of choice equalled by only three other British universities . |
| 9 | Lateness is strictly monitored over rolling 20-day periods , while unauthorised absence is carried forward over three months . |
| 10 | ‘ In 1989/90 , the last year of the rates , we got just over 1,800 distress warrants the equivalent of liability orders . |
| 11 | Having no really rich men , the community enjoyed a measure of equality , similar to Arden — the name of the forest in Warwickshire — where farms averaged just over 30 acres , with less than one in five exceeding 50 , and three-quarters of the land under grass ; farmers raised beef cattle for profit , and crops — rye , oats , barley and drage — for subsistence , some growing none at all . |
| 12 | The team was formed just over two years ago under the tuition of Margaret Charlwood and made its first public appearance at Crystal Palace in November 1981 . |
| 13 | Soldiers of the Second Battalion of the Light Infantry Regiment carried the body of their colleague into the same church where he was baptised just over eighteen years ago . |
| 14 | The 1984 survey estimated just over 200,000 incidents of domestic assault in England and Wales in 1983 . |
| 15 | His temperature dropped just over six degrees this morning . |
| 16 | A fine attacking batsman , he had been in the England team for much of the time since making his debut in 1982 , but after his four centuries in the summer of 1984 he had disappointed too often and his average scarcely reflected his ability — in 57 Tests he had made just over 3,000 runs at 34 before the tour began . |
| 17 | No mean bat , he also scored just over 17,000 runs for the county , and did the double of a hundred wickets and a thousand runs seven times ( nine times counting all cricket ) . |
| 18 | In the sugar sector — the mainstay of Cuba 's economy — it was reported in June that the 1989-90 harvest had exceeded production targets to reach just over 8,000,000 tonnes in spite of bad weather . |
| 19 | She identified just over 70 teams . |
| 20 | I 've done just over fifty percent of them so far . |
| 21 | Over the past years we 've made well over 1000 grants to organisations all over the UK , some probably just round the corner from you . |
| 22 | When he invited farmers through the Darlington and Stockton Times to consider growing mushrooms as a way of diversifying he received well over 100 calls although he was only looking for ten . |
| 23 | For every act of violence quoted by Mr. Cleaver , one could cite an Arab attack , massacre or atrocity , not least during the Intifada which has seen well over 500 Palestinians murdered by his fellow Palestinians . |
| 24 | The report criticized both Ridley , for failing to hand the matter over to the courts , and Lord Young for failing to refer the takeover to the MMC , and put forward over 30 recommendations for the strengthening of financial regulations . |
| 25 | Fact : With more than 150 operating worldwide over 30 years , the PWR already is the established international option . |
| 26 | It was opened just over twelve months later by Bishop Gordon on 19th August 1891 . |
| 27 | Second Portadown ( Armagh Road ) was opened just over 10 years later . |
| 28 | Prism was founded just over five years ago by individuals involved in the arts , either at community level or in further education establishments . |
| 29 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 30 | Orcs vary in height and their physical appearance more than humans — some are no taller than a man but most are substantially larger and the biggest Orcs stand well over seven feet tall . |