Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] for over " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about Democratic hopeful Paul Tsongas 's lymphoma cancer which has not recurred for over five years ? |
| 2 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 3 | Around bends , over rocks , the river did n't ease for over four miles , a total height loss of over 600 feet . |
| 4 | For most Germans it was bewildering that they should suffer such losses at the hands of a country that had not existed for over 100 years . |
| 5 | Bertrand Gachot had not raced for over a year , but his relative inexperience did not show as he began to attack Suzuki 's Lola in the race 's later stages . |
| 6 | ( Barzani said on May 24 that the legislative and executive councils of the Kurdistan autonomous region created under legislation of 1974 had not operated for over a year . |
| 7 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 8 | My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years . |
| 9 | THAT night Maggie had a dream she had not had for over two years and woke up sweating and anxious , her own cries still ringing in her mind . |
| 10 | He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year . |
| 11 | He had spoken in the voice of the army officer he had once been , expecting instant obedience , showing McAllister a man far removed from the one she had now known for over two months . |
| 12 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |