Example sentences of "[prep] over [adj] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 2 | For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters . |
| 3 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 4 | For over 40 years we 've built our solid base and sound banking system in the Tokyo metropolitan area , Japan 's vigorous economic centre . |
| 5 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 6 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |