well over

idiom

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

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Four of the remakes—The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Alice in Wonderland, and Aladdin—have eclipsed $1 billion at the worldwide box office, with most of the other theatrical releases grossing well over $500 million. — Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025 Restoring those funds, as the comptroller’s office asked the Appropriations Committee to do last week, also would push the governor’s $55.2 billion plan well over the constitutional spending cap next fiscal year. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2025 Romeo Santos’s Singles with Drake and Marc Anthony Santos promoted Formula, Vol. 2 for well over a year with a number of singles, including collaborations with superstars like Marc Anthony and Drake. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025 The typical egg farm in Canada has about 25,000 laying hens, whereas many farms in the U.S. have well over a million. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for well over

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