Sentence examples for how overrun from inspiring English sources

"But"—Jeff's voice trails off—"you can see how overrun it's become".

It's hard to explain quite how overrun Oxford can sometimes feel to its residents.

Ministers have yet to say how cost overruns will be met, for one thing.

He described how weeds overran the grass, teenagers raced their bikes between the panels and tourists passing in duck boats laughed at the sculpture.

In 1981, an article in the Times described how tourists overran the four-hundred-foot-wide Winter Park sinkhole, which had caused an estimated two million dollars' worth of damage.

Every time, he said, the agency employees he talked to alluded to how they were "overrun with applications" or told him, "You don't have any idea how much we have to do here".

For a moment, pondering how printed names overrun the places they identify, the poem offers a hint of unlikely emotion: The names of seashore towns run out to sea, the names of cities cross the neighboring mountains —the printer here experiencing the same excitement as when emotion too far exceeds its cause.

Just how big those overruns would be, or whether they would exist at all, is a point of some contention.

Deirdre Barrett is the author of Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose and Waistland: The R/evolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis.

How much of the overrun will be due to China?

And when towns plan for the future, he said, some of their first thoughts how to avoid being overrun by cell phone towers.