The phrase "a sentence over" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used informally to refer to a sentence that has been mentioned previously in a text or conversation.
Example: "As mentioned a sentence over, the results were inconclusive."
Alternatives: "the previous sentence" or "the earlier statement".
I enjoy teaching undergraduates, but when you do a Mooc you've got to keep repeating a sentence over and over again until there's no ambulance in the background, no truck backing up and no stumbles where you say "um" and repeat yourself.
These exorbitant prices have little to do with the cost of moving a byte or a sentence over telecom networks, which has fallen sharply in recent years.
Yet after almost two decades of trials at the tribunal in The Hague, involving close to 120 people, no officials of the Belgrade government are serving a sentence over atrocities in Bosnia or Croatia.
Defense lawyers typically seek some form of leniency on behalf of a client who offers genuine cooperation, asking prosecutors perhaps to agree to not seek capital punishment or a sentence over a certain number of years.
In the back seat, Ammar added quietly, "I'm saying a sentence over and over to my wife: 'Never afraid of Saddam — beaten by the mentality of the Iraqi people.' " Ammar's disillusionment came at a cost — it took courage for him to let go of his naïve dreams and face the reality of occupied Iraq.
I would read a sentence over and over in the news, lips twitching, a doctor of letters from Stanford who could not comprehend what he was reading.
Sometimes I would read a page-long sentence over and over again to hear the music of it, to luxuriate in the profundity of the thought, to re-experience the incredible beauty of the writing.
After Sarmina ruled, Williams issued a press release blasting the judge for vacating a death sentence "over a few handwritten notes and scraps of paper".
They're just not the sort of things you can express in a single sentence over a grainy shot of Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of some missiles.
They're just not the sort of things you can express in a single sentence over a grainy shot of Benjamin Netanyahu standing in front of some missiles.
A syllable, for example, takes place over a quarter of a second, while a sentence unfolds over a few seconds.
