Example sentences of "not [verb] for over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What about Democratic hopeful Paul Tsongas 's lymphoma cancer which has not recurred for over five years ? |
| 5 | My train would not leave for over two hours , so I strolled desultorily around the town . |
| 6 | Charles , meanwhile , had commenced his first campaign to subdue the Saxons , a task which was not concluded for over 20 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |