Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 2 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 3 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 4 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 5 | He 'd heard nothing from them for over three months , and was forced to assume that they were either dead , or prisoners of the Nazis . |
| 6 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They have been selling very well , so we have now extended them to over 60 stores , ’ say Sainsbury 's . |
| 8 | Watkins probably heard mention of these ideas , the seeds from which may have lain dormant in him for over fifty years . |
| 9 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 10 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 11 | I 'm not very good with people and , even though Eric is my brother , I have n't seen him for over two years , since he went crazy . |
| 12 | Sam 's cousin , Debbie went out with him for over six years . |
| 13 | Two years ago , when playing for NSW Country Origin against Sydney Origin , Roebuck badly damaged his right ankle sidelining him for over four months and ruining any immediate aspiration to claim a Test team berth . |
| 14 | Milton Humason who worked with him for over 30 years called him a ‘ brilliant leader ’ and wrote , ‘ He was sure of himself — of what he wanted to do , and of how to do it . ’ |
| 15 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 16 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 17 | The first time Jan Doak wore the dolphin suit in meeting common dolphins , one individual bonded with her for over four hours , a rare response from this shy species . |
| 18 | After trailing her for over two hours Poppy flopped down , but when I approached her she just got up and dived off through a hole in the fence . |
| 19 | They had been at it for over two and a half hours before the searchlight finally picked out the slumped body in the yard of an abandoned farm at over a thousand metres on the slopes of Mount Guffone . |
| 20 | Since our son found maths difficult he had , quite understandably , decided that it was easier to do none at all — and had got away with it for over six weeks . |
| 21 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 22 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 23 | They did not bother to rid the cellar of its bolted-down bed or the length of chain that had tethered Simon to it for over three weeks . |
| 24 | I 've been on it for over three years and I 'm quite concerned about some of the things I 've heard tonight and I 'm going to make an appointment |
| 25 | After all , people have contributed to these pensions during their working lives and in order to qualify for a full pension , you need to have paid into it for over forty years . |
| 26 | Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years . |