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Example sentences for "little over"

  • A little over a month before, it had seemed to Joe that ejection seats were the most useless of all possible pieces of equipment to have in a space ship.

  • His voice took a little over a second to reach its destination.

  • Their ship was a little over 400 miles up, now.

  • He came there, I guess, a little over 2 or 3 hours after that--just a very quick trip, and not much time to make any preparation.

  • Let's see, about, a little over 7 years now.

  • Dallas; from there I went to work with the police department where I have been for a little over 22 years now.

  • This spanned a period of a little over 2 months, did it not?

  • Special cartridges are a little over 1-1/2 inches in length.

  • It is just about, I would say, just--if it was measured it would be a little over a half block from where I was parked at to the place, you see.

  • They expected to make Mr. Booth's ranch in a little over half a day, and from there a sixty-mile ride would put them in the city.

  • I had come to the ranch a stranger only a little over a year before, but had I been born there her interest could have been no stronger.

  • If only a soaking rain would fall, making water plentiful, we could make the drive in little over a hundred miles, while a dry season would compel; us to follow the river nearly double the distance.

  • Yes; that would be a little over a year, that would be a year and 2 months after he had joined the Marine Corps.

  • A short walk southwards through the suburb of Sharkford leads direct in a little over a mile to this goal of the archaeologist.

  • A little over a mile to the south-east is picturesque Twyford on the wooded banks of the Itchen.

  • The column that stands on high ground, a little over a mile from Savernake station, commemorates, among other events, the temporary recovery of George III from his mental illness.

  • A public conveyance meets the trains for the latter, a little over a mile away.

  • We entered the country a little over a year after the close of the rebellion, while all the causes and events were still fresh in the minds of the natives.

  • Mtyabezi is the mission station of Brother and Sister Frey, and a little over a year after it was opened Miss Elizabeth Engle also came to help in it.

  • The building progressed satisfactorily, and they held services on each Sunday for about two months or a little over.

  • The mission had been opened only a little over a year, and our imperfect knowledge of the language, as well as of the native character, made it scarcely possible for them to be well instructed in the things of the Lord.

  • Elder Steigerwald was equal to the emergency, and together with the help of Brother Doner and the natives, he completed the house in a little over a year from the time he began to haul the stone.

  • Ridden out, Zal finished a little over a length in front of Ovelando, and quite a piece back came the favorite.

  • It was a beautiful and exciting finish to the stand, Baden-Baden winning by little over a length, Leonard second, a head in front of King William, third.

  • An Englishman was digging a ditch on the creek bottom, to drain the creek, a little over three-quarters of a mile west of father's house.

  • Some three or four years after we came to the country there came a tribe, or part of a tribe, of Indians and camped a little over a mile southwest of our house, in the timber, near the head of the windfall next to the openings.

  • After that I went on as fast as I could, a little over a mile, till I got beyond where the road was cut out and into the trail, when I made up my mind I was stouter and my jug really seemed lighter.

  • Inability to reply accounts for a little over 40 per cent of the failures.

  • This accounts for a little over half of all the failures.

  • The last three were light-draughts, the Cricket and Gazelle being but little over 200 tons.

  • The slope from Shreveport to Alexandria at high water is a little over a hundred feet, but immediately above the latter place there are two small rapids, called the Falls of Alexandria, which interrupt navigation when the water is low.

  • The fight had lasted a little over an hour.

  • At birth the average weight of a baby is a little over 7 lb and the length about 20 in.

  • Very nearly one-half this tonnage was British, a little over 18% German, and about 29% Chilean.

  • The highest temperature of the water issuing from these springs is a little over 135 deg.

  • The nearest point of the English coast to the Channel Islands is Portland Bill, a little over 50 m.

  • The area of uncultivated land is little over 3-1/2 million acres, whereas fully four times that amount is capable of cultivation.

  • The number of the species of the mammalia is little over twenty, and several of these have been introduced by man.

  • A little over a thousand members, one-third of whom are females.

  • His parishioners and friends subscribed for a memorial window, and a fund of a little over £200 was raised for the benefit of the widow, but a very small part thereof went from Birmingham.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little above; little annoyed; little away; little before; little drop; little figures; little forward; little gray; little house; little juice; little less; little library; little like; little mistress; little pain; little past; little pleasure; little remarkable; little strength; little tour; little volume; little ways; little wine; little work; still remain; these are