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well over

Verb

Meaning

flow or run over (a limit or brim)

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I quit smoking well over twenty years ago. Shelley Berman

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. Steve Guttenberg

I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react. Alan Moore

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now. Douglas Adams

It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return. Chen Shui-bian

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. Napoleon Hill

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