well over

idiom

: much more than
That car costs well over $50,000.

Examples of well over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Temperatures all week will be in the low to mid 90s and due to high humidity, heat index values are expected to be well over triple digits. Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 June 2024 The vast majority of voters in this election — well over 80% — made up their minds long ago. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024 For weeks now, temperatures in several states in India’s north have reached well over 110 degrees, and hospitals have been reporting an uptick in cases of heatstroke. Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 29 May 2024 Trending on Billboard The set should also sell quite well, with Eilish a reliably strong performer there – Happier sold 154,000 copies in its first week, making for well over half of the set’s overall first-week performance (238,000 equivalent album units). Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 22 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for well over 

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“Well over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/well%20over. Accessed 7 Jun. 2024.

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