Sentence examples for had selected over from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, on 30 March 1909, U.S. Congress approved the construction of two "Design 601" battleships, also known as Battleship 1910 with six 12-inch (305 mm) turrets, which the General Board had selected over two 14-inch (356 mm) designs in 1909.

An example of superlative service: You have selected over $30,000 of garments — and there are three of them, total.

"We do not yet adequately understand the way in which the different environments in the world have selected over time the genes which determine our capacity to do different things.

Pearce said he had selected Scott Parker over Steven Gerrard as his captain because he felt the Tottenham player "would grow with the role.

After one standout year in college, the Islanders had selected DiPietro first over all in the 2000 draft.

Last month, it announced that it had selected a proposal from JPMorgan over a rafter of other plans, including one from Vector.

If we had selected people aged 30 or over in our database, the true prevalence would have been 6.87% for DM and 23.72% for HTN.

EADS said only that it was concerned that the Air Force had selected a "high-risk, concept aircraft" over its "proven, more capable" refueling tanker.

G.M. put Opel up for sale in the spring as it headed toward bankruptcy in the United States, and G.M. management had selected Magna as the preferred bidder over rival offers from RHJ International, a Belgian-based holding company, and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding.

In 1996, NASA announced with great fanfare that it had selected the Lockheed X-33 design over two competing proposals to demonstrate technology for a privately built and owned rocket that would replace the shuttle and other rockets.

WORLD CUP QUALIFYING The United States Soccer Federation has selected Columbus, Ohio, over Seattle and Boston for the World Cup qualifying game against Mexico on Feb. 28.