Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 2 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |