How To Use Well over In A Sentence

We spent a lot of time together, well over two months, and so we really got to know each other.
In Kingston, we check out the museum at the penitentiary, where convicts have been housed for well over 100 years.
He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts. Contributor: Tom Van Devender
When you consider that between Spanish, English and Arabic, well over half of the planet doesn't speak a tonal language, that puts Chinese at a serious competative disadvantage. Kaplin's Simplifiid Speling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I'm a light heavyweight, but this guy looked well over heavyweight and his tattoos made him look like a statue desecrated by graffiti.

Well over 10 million people were jobless in the face of savage inflation.
Those of us who had the honour and the rare advantage of knowing him intimately and well over many years find, upon looking back upon that vast experience, something unique, over and above the learning, over and above the application of that learning to Thomism, which is surely the very heart of the Dominican affair. Belloc Speaks - To the Undying Memory
Altogether, over 900 million people—well over twice as many as speak English as a first language—use an Indic language as a native tongue. The English Is Coming!
Jamie Shepherd was well over eighty, yet he was as mentally alert as a man half his age.
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
In full light, you could see Alison was well over forty.
I used to joke that Fortune 500 companies can spend well over $250 million dollars on building a world-class brand, only to hand their social media presence over to "an intern for the summer," and watch it destruct in a matter of weeks. Beverly Macy: Is Your Company Smart Enough for Social Media?
The City of Glasgow athlete has thrown 55.10m in the hammer this season - well over the qualification mark for the World Juniors.
Seconds later, with scant time to jump out of the way, in a flurry of sticks, leaves and flashing lights the boys in blue rush past at well over the speed limit.
The stream is well overgrown with willow and more.
Some of the dullest most timid people I've ever met have been young and some of the zingiest livewires are well over 70. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Two batters later, Valentin golfed a 3-2 off-speed pitch well over the wall in right field. USATODAY.com
Several weekends ago on Governors Island, well over a thousand people were dancing to a 12-piece orchestra that played mostly foxtrots, shifting from red-hot stomps by Fletcher Henderson to smooth two-beat show tunes by George Gershwin. A Retro Jazz Movement With a Good Dance Beat
Hopefully the Leaders could find a better partner for her, or else the vampires could very well overpopulate the area.
She was driving at well over the speed limit.
For well over a year, he has been whoring his military ‘experience’ to anyone who would listen.
The Catholic Church and the pontifical council are at the epicenter of ecumenism for many reasons, not least because well over half the Christians in the world are Catholics.
The information benefits can be achieved by mandatory trade reporting to a repository (which I've advocated for well over 7 years) without requiring mutualized counterparty risk sharing, or centralized risk pricing (in the face of severe information disadvantages). SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
So, breaking that impasse is VERY welcome, essential and well over due. Latest on Cork Church records going online… « Cork Genealogist
Some chartists are claiming that this week's new high is very significant and a signal for a continued bull move but just as many claim we are well over bought and are still due a significant correction, so what are you to believe? Still bullish on silver.
The fact that well over a thousand people signed your petition shows it struck a chord with your readers.
We must consider well over the matter.
The company has been providing high-quality timers and chronographs for well over two decades.
DA - "So get this there was a queue - at MY ATM - well the one near my house - this morning - i had to queue for fecks sake - for well over a minute and this ould cow turns around and smiles at me with a poxy 20 yoyo note in her hand Politics.ie
Sleds run well over frozen snow.
She was studying at university in Manchester and had met gentle, quiet Pete, well over a foot taller than her, a ‘deeply spiritual guy with lovely eyes’.
Realizing that he was in well over his head, Alwan faked an ankle injury and finagled his way out of the camp. The Longest War
The exact count of the gunshots fired is unclear, but it is well over thirty.
Well over half of profit still came from overseas, and marine paint and powder coatings were narrowly the largest contributors.
I note that the bill itself is well over a year overdue, since the date of the Stockholm agreement, yet nowhere in the bill does it actually state what the exportation of those certain goods are.
The airline threw well over a billion bonus miles at them as a salve, and most of them are still flying the ‘friendly’ skies one year later.
Two-piece wheels, which are also known as fabricated wheels, regardless of construction, don’t seem to fare as well over the long run in 4x4 applications. F&S Guide to Truck Wheels
Sledges run well over frozen snow.
Other times, the air-conditioning was turned off and the temperature in the unventilated room rose to well over 100 degrees.
Babies are breast-fed on demand, often for well over a year, although solid foods, usually rice pap, may be introduced at a young age.
He'd been drinking and was well over the legal limit.
But the full back snatched at the opportunity and ballooned the ball well over the top.
While much of the California coast saw breakers in the six to eight-foot range, the faces of the bigger waves at Cortes were well over 35 feet from trough to crest.
The lawyer-turned-politician is, and has been, a prominent feature of our political landscape for well over a century.
But the full back snatched at the opportunity and ballooned the ball well over the top.
In any event, any new claim by the company would be barred by limitation as it is well over six years since the events giving rise to any claim.
Standing at well over six feet, he had long, dark hair with a slight wave to it that just brushed his shoulders.
Well over a century before Macaulay wrote on Bacon, John Aubrey (in Brief Lives) had given a somewhat adulatory account of Bacon's life.
(Granted, there are many other strands in the tapestry of religion, and granted, I've entirely overlooked the polytheistic and nontheistic religions, such as Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism, but in that short list above, we encompass more than half the world's population, and well over half its believers.) Clay Farris Naff: Can Evolution Tell Us What God Wants?
Mr. Carmichael was a tall man, well over six feet, and slender, with aquiline features and dark hair perfectly oiled and combed into sleek lines rising from his high, strong forehead.
Typically, though, she waited while I fixed it, remaining unflustered and running well over time when other artists might have shown me the door.
If you shifted that storm track northwestward a little, Washington D.C. might have ended the season with well over 20 inches of snow for the season, a total well above average. A detailed look at this winter's biggest players
There are over 30,000 different orchid species and well over 100,000 hybrid strains have been artificially propagated.
The guy stood up, he looked about 5'8 and weighed well over 300 pounds, and his face added a little extra chubbiness to the fact that he shaved his head.
Changing her position casually, she threw an elbow well over on the skin bale, rested her body upon it, and arranged her parka. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
That power is particularly potent when you consider that most of these unions each have well over half a million members and represent a critical segment of America's voter base.
The safeguards, intended to prevent the opportunities for fraudand manipulation, which we have enjoyed for well over a century, willbe rendered nonexistent if we permit our vote counting to be concealed within the unobservable processes of acomputer. Why We Must Speak Out
It all helped to keep energy levels up, and made everyone forget the pangs of hunger and thirst, for well over three hours.
A True Bantam is a breed of bantam that does not have a large fowl equivalent and the Rosecomb is an English breed dating back well over a hundred years.
For well over its first century, American foreign policy was a partnership between government and business, driven by efforts to keep markets open for exports and investments.
Sleds run well over frozen snow.
She was driving at well over the speed limit.
Under the star ratings system, trusts could still do well overall even if they performed poorly on financial management.
He was driving at well over the speed limit.
The cost of the trip amounted to well over ￡500.
On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees.
The cost of the trip amounted to well over ￡500.
To fasten a double-breasted overcoat, you'll have to lap one edge of the front well over the other.
If you buy and sell shares through a high-street stockbroker, you're paying well over the odds for this service.
Growth in "deathlike" places like Suffolk County, in Long Island, Orange County, N.Y., and Morris County, N.J., has been well over three times faster than the city. The future of newspapers (cont'd) ...
My dwarves have scuppered the concept by growing to well over six feet.
The thing measures well over five metres in length, yet rarely feels unwieldy or too large for UK roads and parking spots. The Sun
High occupancies and room rates have combined to lift operating margins to well over 50 per cent in many cases.
He wears heavy gold chains and bracelets, is well over 6ft and fairly broad. Times, Sunday Times
He is now taking away discolored layers of varnish that have coated the painting for well over a century.
Mick Inkpen hit on the magic formula of familiarity-breeds-content well over a decade ago, and has been capitalising on it ever since.
Houses in the school catchment areas sell fastest, and often for well over the asking price. Times, Sunday Times
When talking about the elderly in this sense we are referring to people in an advanced age group of well over eighty.
This selling has helped the fund finish in oversold territory for the past two consecutive sessions, and earn positive, short term edges of well over 3%. Forbes.com: News
Accomplished scholars such as Abbeville founder Donald Livingston, Thomas DiLorenzo, Thomas Naylor, Marshall DeRosa, Kirkpatrick Sale, Yuri Maltsev, and Kent Masterson Brown all addressed the gathering of well over 100 attendees during the course of the weekend. LewRockwell.com
When he died at sixty-five in 1750 he was credited with well over 200 hours of music.
Or what about the chamber music: 70 string quartets, 30-plus piano trios, and well over 100 baryton trios.
They do well over there -- but not nearly as well as at places like Tri-Met and the Port, which partially explains the absence of Goldschmidt cronies from the executive ranks at the PDC. Jack Bog's Blog: June 2009 Archives
The odour is growing ever-stronger, and the application of industrial-grade disinfectant is well overdue. posted by Dr. Dawg at 4: 36 PM Archive 2009-07-01
The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
Beef now costs well over 30 roubles a pound.
Standing well over 6-feet, with shoulder-length hair, and a charming smile, Shubhankar Ray is much like the brand he represents: striking, handsome and consummately cool. Zandile Blay: G-Star Jeans on Why Spokesmodel Clémence Poésy Is the Perfect Fit
As a country, we have long forgotten that the model we use for housing the poor in state-built houses is that of the first mining township, Kimberley, well over a century ago.
The Fabia will average well over 40 miles per gallon, almost matching the more expensive 1.9 litre turbodiesel.
Eventually there were well over 250 amphitheatres in the Roman empire - so it is no surprise that the amphitheatre and its associated shows are the quintessential symbols of Roman culture.
Across the Channel English boxing, or pugilism, had of course already been in existence for well over two centuries.
However, ITV is still negotiating with Cowell over his continuing presence on the Britain's Got Talent judging panel. ITV confirms The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent deal for three more years
His energetic film sports well over two dozen interviews with spokesmen from the industry and performers.
Sleds run well over frozen snow.
Scattered through it are a few white pine trees well over five feet thick at the butt.
Providing navigational aids to assist users in finding information in hypertext systems has been an ongoing research problem for well over a decade.
He wears heavy gold chains and bracelets, is well over 6ft and fairly broad. Times, Sunday Times
The litany continues for well over three hundred pages, but there is little point in following it further.
It has served Private Eye fairly well over the years.
A statistical analysis based on this data suggests that well over half the stars are being orbited by rocky terrestrial material.
Cook a cucumber as in No. 165, braize it for five minutes, add to it a good rich Bechamel (No. 3), mixed with cream and grated Parmesan Spread this well over the cucumber, and put it into the oven for ten minutes keeping the rounds of cucumber separate, so as to arrange them in a circle on a very hot dish. The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes
In fact well over a hundred species have been recorded in this country, ranging in size from goldcrest to grey heron and including geese.
But he was banned for a year - because he was well over the alcohol limit at the time.
Extensive market research revealed that the site was substantially undervalued and a more realistic figure would be well over ￡100000.
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
He and his staff oversee three offices and file well over 500 consumer bankruptcy cases per year in all three New Jersey vicinages.
The petitions bore more than 2,500 signatures, well over the minimum of 1,695 required by state election laws.
For Karen Valby of Entertainment Weekly, Reds is political, educational, provocative, difficult, and long (clocking in at well over three hours). GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 10/25.
In the international classification of sleep disorders, there are well over 80 specific causes of sleeplessness.
The organization has spent well over a quarter of a million dollars to improve the facilities, build and deliver doghouses for animals left outside in all weather.
Poets use language sometimes to tell horrible truths or offer recipes for healing – Ms. Giovanni’s wit, courage and just plain crankiness have served her well over the years, and now those same qualities will help her students at Virginia Tech. These are her gifts. Ms. G in the Pulpit. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
A light signal can travel well over 16km before it halves in intensity.
Jarrod's a big fella, well over 6 feet, with hands the size of tree stumps, but still able to coax sweet sounds from a guitar.
Pact has been providing high-quality timers and chronographs for well over two decades.
Since returning to his plot in October his hut has been burnt down and he has lost tools, milk churns and chicken feed totalling well over £100.
The engine temperature shot up to well over 100 degrees and I had no choice but to bring the car into the pits.
Then we walked back to Hall, which was well over 3 miles mainly uphill: no wonder my feet are aching!
However, the company's net worth is still valued at well over €17 million.
Siena's characteristic angular outlines and patches of light and dark carry well over a distance.
We'd be more psyched about the Manhattan win if well over half of our pool hadn't picked that bracket.
Thanks to a lean operation with some 45 employees, Dropbox reportedly experiences well over 10 times year-over-year growth and positive cash flow.
Gaviria had been widely expected to obtain well over half the votes cast.
In a whirl of activity, the team boarded the aircraft with well over 500 pounds of precious lifesaving equipment.
During his time there the church membership grew from thirty-eight to well over a hundred.
He won well over course and distance on testing ground two weeks ago and he only needs to handle the faster conditions to be involved. The Sun
Clasts vary in size from a few decimetres to well over a metre in the thicker beds.
Jim died in 1968 and Bill retired, bringing to the end an era of boatbuilding which had lasted well over one hundred years.
The wildlife includes otters, seals, salmon and trout and well over 200 different species of birds such as red-throated divers, corncrake, solan geese and a few pairs of golden eagles.
In the fall, if you can find the tufts of eye-bright or houstonia cerulia, and mingle them in with your mosses, you will find them blooming before winter is well over. American Woman's Home
I haven't driven in well over year - not since I went to Kentucky for Christmas 2000 and tooled around town in my mom's car.
It’s a beautiful part of the island but has not been sampled well over time. Smithsonian Insider
I wish all these wedding festivities were well over. Wives and Daughters
But the domestic economy's resilience should ensure that the manufacturing sector continues to hold up well over the next year or so. Times, Sunday Times
The worst thing, we agreed, was putting on the oilskins in such conditions, whether on a fishing boat or a yacht heeled well over and battering her way into a difficult sea.
He'd been drinking and was well over the legal limit.
Come November, U.S. voters, after well over two centuries, still will not elect to the presidency a Black person who is the descendant of "we the people" who were enslaved not long ago in the U.S.A. These descendants are the Black American people, the group of Blacks whom Kenyan historian Ali Mazrui somehow has come to deem "undefinable" or "unmentionable", or who somehow should not be singled out n view of our long historical existence, lest in some way we might be seen as an "elite. BHM (Black History Month)
Because of the difficulty in negotiating the mechanical and human debris that littered the road, it took him well over an hour to reach the cloverleaf that would take him onto the road to the lake.
Before the captive kiwi were released the iconic birds had been extinct in the southern North Island for well over a century.
This was in my report two years ago and action is now well overdue. Times, Sunday Times
Jeffries spoke for well over an hour, without pause, without notes, as fluent and long-winded as Fidel Castro.
The Rundown: It has been well over a decade since the last solo "Predator" installment, and while the dreadlocked alien hunters have appeared in other movies since, the lackluster quality of those "films" have depleted my enthusiasm for the franchise quite a bit. The Five Movies We Can’t Wait To See In 2010! » MTV Movies Blog
he performed well over the long haul
After all, the gabfest involving senior Congressional leaders from both parties lasted well over six hours, with no tangible results.
A large number were veterans of the anti-Vietnam War and anti-nuclear protests, with the vast majority well over the age of 40.
And we are continuing to expand our programme of live relays to well over 400 cinemas round the country. Times, Sunday Times
British farmers receive subsidies of well over 2.5billion a year under the common agricultural programme. Times, Sunday Times
There are well over 300 species of Dianthus, including hundreds of hybrid varieties.
The large pieces are 68 to 76 inches tall, and, standing on low plinths, the figures are well over life-size.
On a mission to win Mrs. Creswell over for Raymond, Archie befriends the elderly woman and the two become close pals.
He was driving at well over the speed limit.
An Isleworth woman who never drinks had several glasses of fruit punch at a party and finished up driving at 64 miles an hour with well over twice the legal limit for alcohol.
That meant it was a bit of a guess for the balance on new tyres, but our car always goes well over one lap and I tried my best.
Sledges run well over frozen snow.
Well over half a million dollars will be paid out by the capitano, or ‘manager’, of the victorious contrada, not only to his own jockey, but to the capitani of friendly contradas who helped him out in the race.
Add in the relatively bush-league butcheries of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge (2.0 million dead), North Vietnam (1.7 million dead), or North Korea (a mere 1.2 million dead), and you push the score well over 100 million. "District 9" and UHC
He is now taking away discolored layers of varnish that have coated the painting for well over a century.
He lost his highly-paid job with a Fortune 500 and was unemployed for well over a year.
At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar.
Their range and tessitura increases and, with training, children are singing well over an octave in tune and in time by the end of first grade.
The pants fit equally well over legs that were like tree stumps, and his polished shoes and brilliantined, combed-back hair both reflected the light from the hanging globes above. DIAMOND RUBY
She had sent out well over four hundred invitations that afternoon.
The nuclear family paradigm is well overdue for an overhaul.
We could, as Friedman suggests, begin to "reinvest in our growth engines" or continue, for example, to have well over half of our research and development devoted to defense, for which the return on investment has been steadily dropping. Christopher Holshek: End of the Military-Industrial Complex?
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
Hundreds of thousands of refugees have swelled Monrovia's population to well over a million, scrabbling where they can for shelter and running short of food, water and medical supplies.
She lifted her gold lorgnette and looked Emily well over. Emily Fox-Seton
In an outbreak, well over 100,000 of the flightless crickets roam across the land, devouring crops, grasses, and ornamentals as they go.
It doesn't do to dwell over much on one's painful memories.
Gondi, let's call her, weighs several pounds and balances on a gondola well over a foot long. Style Invitational Week 890: A contest to combine two sports team names
These medium weight, raw denim with white selvedge look and feel just like those designer jeans that cost well over $150, but come with the 2009-friendly price of just Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
Oh, I adore my dear addy, which has served me so well over the years.
The thing measures well over five metres in length, yet rarely feels unwieldy or too large for UK roads and parking spots. The Sun
The upkeep costs alone would be well over 100,000 a year. Times, Sunday Times
This week's action by the POA was the first industrial dispute at any Irish prison for well over a decade.
Add to that the rotational inertia of the flywheel and driveshaft, and you're well over 2,500 foot-pounds.
The list of Shiraz is a full page long with prices ranging from the mid twenties a bottle to well over $100.
I've knitted mountains of stuff - well over 75 jackets for premature babies, 10 hat and mitten sets and at least a dozen blankets for dogs in three months.
Advance bookings exceeded all expectations and well over 1,000 anglers journeyed to the resort to compete.
And a disciplined population, that rose at last by sedulous begging on birthdays and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhabited this world. Archive 2010-04-01
They supply well over half of India's milk and their butterfat is the major source of ghee.
She has run well over sprint trips on her last two races and is probably better over this distance. The Sun
It also enjoyed legal protection through the courts, and probably well over 20 per cent of the land area was enclosed by private means prior to 1750.
He was well over a minute in front of the next finisher.
College kids on their junior year abroad, seminarians, nuns and priests and a handful of English-speaking expats and visitors filled the pews — in all well over 200 people plus the 50-odd priests who concelebrated with American Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican's supreme court. Rome's station churches revive ancient tradition
From well over two hundred stories submitted we narrowed the field by making a short-list of personal favourites. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
He performed well overall but did make the expected rookie mistakes now and then.
Recording times averaged out quite well over about a month of almost daily use.
The car will be left-hand drive and cost well over 22,000. The Sun
Sleds run well over frozen snow.
In good years, when pintail numbers are up, well over 100,000 "sprigs" will winter on the Texas bays. Chron.com Chronicle
When the trust's shares were issued several years ago, they were well oversubscribed and were seen as an efficient way for investors to participate in the mid-term endowment policy market.
But the domestic economy's resilience should ensure that the manufacturing sector continues to hold up well over the next year or so. Times, Sunday Times
Over thirty-five meters in length and weighing well over a hundred tons, the sulfur-bottom, or blue whale, lay at the surface and considered his unprecedented situation. Cachalot
Well over half of the expedition were evacuated with insect bites and upset stomachs during the four months it took to get the vehicles through.
Well over half of the terrain is steep and lightly treed - perfect for off-piste riding in the pow.
I haven't been sleeping well over the past few nights, and as a result am a bit groggy throughout the day.
This is a reform that is well overdue.
Is this the start of what we will now experience for years to come - with the BBC just pliantly going along with the Obama PR machine, just as it has been going along with the Labour PR machine for well over a decade here in the UK? Archive 2008-12-20
It was well over 100 years from the invention of printing to the appearance of the first newspapers.
It’s a beautiful part of the island but has not been sampled well over time. Smithsonian Insider

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