Sentence examples for a touch over the from inspiring English sources

A few spins around the neighborhood at a touch over the speed limit.

Maybe the promotional line about fans' being able to cheer beyond their lifetime can seem a touch over the top.

In "The Art of Burning Bridges" (a title, like much of the text, a touch over the top), a biography is imbued with not just curiosity and memorial admiration but an invigorating sense of rivalry and, across the years, comradeship.

This is a touch over the top: Mr Brown tends to come across as someone who knows all the answers already.That sense of having it all worked out may even be part of his appeal.

Though this may seem a touch over the top, it cannot be denied that with its pinkish-brown plumage, blue wing-patch and prominent crest, the jay is a beautiful bird.

That's pretty common: A single column of tennis balls would have a cylinder-to-sphere diameter ratio close to 1. (Chan's Christmas ornaments were just a touch over the 2.7013 limit).

These days his 17-bedroom mansion feels a touch over-modernised and the street outside can get noisy, but it is right in the centre.

Murray is a touch over-eager in the next point, netting after a tame return.

The fourth ball, though, is a touch over-pitched and gets punched through the covers with a drive so sweet it should have its own E number.

"A touch over 66 percent of the lap is spent at full throttle in qualifying and the average speed is well over 200 k.p.h.," said Rémi Taffin, head of track operations at Renault.

Because the house is only a touch over 17 feet wide, the couple gave it a sense of volume and light by reinforcing the parlor-floor ceiling with steel and removing the wall that separated the room from the stair hall.