Example sentences of "[prep] over [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the batch of over seventy birds I ringed that day , only one other came to light . |
| 2 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 3 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 4 | As a reader of over 60 years I never found you more stimulating . |
| 5 | Senior Corporate Manager Alan Lingard said , ‘ With over 5000 employees we see this as an ideal opportunity to market the Bank 's services . |
| 6 | With more than thirty products selling to over fifty countries it 's a multi million pound business . |
| 7 | As TODAY revealed yesterday , there had been evidence that for over four years he rented a luxury apartment only 11 miles from their bungalow at Caterham , Surrey . |
| 8 | An international exile for over two years he is poised for a late , late charge to try for a spectacular break into the Great Britain and Ireland side heading for Minneaoplis in August . |
| 9 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 10 | For over fifteen minutes she dutifully teased and titillated his slumbering pestle with sweet sucking and gentle licking until finally it answered her patient ministrations . |
| 11 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 12 | For over five kilometres they had seen debris and signs of an ancient fireball which had scorched the earth . |
| 13 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 14 | For over three hours we talked and talked and still neither brother had returned to the subject that lay foremost in our minds . |
| 15 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 16 | For over 40 years we 've built our solid base and sound banking system in the Tokyo metropolitan area , Japan 's vigorous economic centre . |
| 17 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 18 | For over seven months I had no idea what had happened to my family — and in that time both my father and my sister died . |
| 19 | For over forty years it was illegal in Indonesia to kill , capture or keep an orang-utan in captivity . |
| 20 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 21 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 22 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |