Example sentences of "[verb] for over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 2 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 3 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 4 | There is a huge dining-room on the seventh floor , with seating for over a thousand , and the Galaxia Night Club on the ninth floor has panoramic views of the bay of Funchal . |
| 5 | They have been widely used for over a hundred and fifty years . |
| 6 | Three paintings fetched three times their expected price , going for over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 7 | Scotch Whisky accounts for over a third of UK food and drinks exports , and its contribution limited the total food and drink ( F&D ) trade deficit to £4 bn in 1991 . |
| 8 | Poland disappeared for over a hundred and thirty years in a series of partitions erm er between it 's ne er er by , by its neighbours and was n't restored in fact to political existence until the end of the first world war . |
| 9 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 10 | Milling and baking continued to account for over a third of these totals and grocery products , particularly the enlarged fruit juice business , made strong gains in both sales and profit , along with the United States branch after rationalisation and the tomato products acquisition . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I 've lived for over a hundred years , ’ replied the little old man proudly . |
| 12 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |