Sentence examples for over a litre from inspiring English sources

I probably brought up over a litre of bile.

China's drinkers knocked back 156m cases of wine in 2011 (a case contains 12 standard 0.75-litre bottles), though that amounts to little over a litre for every person of legal drinking age.

With that in mind, let's get to the recipes which – to the sheer delight of my seven-year-old self – have caused me to use up well over a litre of the good stuff in the past couple days.

Joyce's harshest comments outside the meeting were aimed at Coles and Woolworths over $1-a-litre milk as he warned the supermarkets to "solve the problem yourself" or face government intervention.

Both associations believe that the big rise in petrol and diesel prices over the last few months - with pump prices now well over £1 a litre - has reduced the need for another increase.

A 3.9-litre V8 may be over half a litre shy of the unit in the 458 it replaces, but with two turbochargers, it's quite a bit more powerful.

Since 1998 Turkish motorists have suffered the most as taxes have risen from next to nothing to over 70 euro cents a litre.

Hungarians too have gone from paying no tax to shelling out over 40 cents a litre.

Following the latest cuts, UK farmers now receive just over 23p for a litre of milk – compared to the 30 to 32p it costs them to produce – while energy and grain costs have risen considerably in recent years.

Now the average price in China is over 90 cents a litre, compared with only 69 cents in America (see chart).Steps toward more market-based pricing are welcome, but the formula, which has not been published, is still being applied flexibly.

The prime minister equivocated when questioned about it on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on 17 January, giving George Osborne room for manoeuvre in his forthcoming budget over not implementing the 1p a litre fuel tax rise.