Example sentences of "[prep] over a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a short period , after over a hundred years in the Shurmurs ' hands , the mill was conveyed to William Humphries Bennet and , in 1806 , passed into the hands of John Knowles . |
| 2 | The emplacement of over a million tonnes of alkali-rich cementitious material into a saturated groundwater environment would be likely to make the groundwater more alkaline . |
| 3 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 4 | ‘ Just outside the village I discovered a quarry of over a hundred metres in diameter . |
| 5 | In July 1977 , Revco Drug Stores , one of America 's largest discount drug chains , was found guilty of computer-generated double-billing schemes that resulted in the loss of over a half-million dollars in Medicaid funds to the Ohio Department of Public Welfare ( Vaughan 1980 ) . |
| 6 | The blooms are a soft pink , and fully double , with over a hundred petals to each flower . |
| 7 | With over a thousand delegates from thirty three countries to choose from her impact must have been pretty powerful . |
| 8 | He talked to over a thousand sheikhs in Mesopotamia and — ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |