Example sentences of "was over in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pain was terrible , but it was over in fifteen minutes , and I did n't move . |
| 2 | So the hearing was over in two minutes . |
| 3 | Well it was over in nineteen eighteen . |
| 4 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 5 | Her re-fit was over in less than a fortnight and she was back on the Atlantic run and into the storms . |
| 6 | It was over in less than an hour with Christina winning in straight sets . |
| 7 | ‘ The battle was over in less than an hour , ’ says the leaflet , and eventually the Prince 's message went out , ‘ Let every man find his own way to safety the best way he can . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as the war was over in 1865 Thomas crossed the Atlantic and reconnoitred the New World . |
| 9 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 10 | After all , the Civil War was over in most areas , so the peasants ' best chance of retaliation , by linking up with local White armies , was lost . |