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Example sentences for "over half"

  • The flowers are pale yellow, over half an inch long, arranged in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves, and all turned towards one side of the stem.

  • The corolla is over half an inch long, of a dull blue colour without, but much paler inside.

  • Above, the river comes shooting like an arrow, over half a mile of polished granite, from the base of the upper or Nevada Fall.

  • Mail, daily each way, and for this service alone received over half a million of dollars per year from the government.

  • In short, the experience of over half a century has shown Colombia to be utterly incapable of keeping order on the Isthmus.

  • The friendship between the United States and Japan has been continuous since the time, over half a century ago, when Commodore Perry, by his expedition to Japan, first opened the islands to western civilization.

  • Over half a million Filipino students are now in the Philippine schools helping to mold the men of the future into a homogeneous people, but there still remain more than a million Filipino children of school age yet to be reached.

  • Our numbers are now considerably reduced, over half of the Battalion have joined the Military Police, others having taken over civil employment in the Post Office and Government buildings.

  • Here, speaking personally, I disposed of over half a tin of biscuits and two tins of jam.

  • These two were shot by over half-a-dozen concealed Boers at about twenty yards range.

  • The flowers are fragrant and pink, over half an inch long, and form a close cluster, of eight or more.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "over half" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    buon giorno; civil authority; condensing engine; court room; equal size; find some; given from; inverted image; over against; over each; over half; over head and ears; over her; over hill and dale; over his; over thar; over the; over the fire till; over them; over twenty; over which; over yonder; overwhelming force; overwhelming majority; passed through; that every