Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 2 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 3 | The state had persisted for over three days now . |
| 4 | Thus wrote Fuller in a paper published after his death , on which he had worked for over 20 years . |
| 5 | This system of healing was discovered by Edward Bach , a doctor who had practised for over 20 years in London as a consultant , bacteriologist and homoeopath . |
| 6 | He had his ships and politics , she had her piano which she had practised for over twenty years , so now let the dream come true . |
| 7 | The bulk of his estate went to his common-law wife , Sarah Dovekin or Dufkin , a former servant of Mrs Manley , with whom he had lived for over twenty years . |
| 8 | The canals of 1900 had existed for over 100 years and during this time had changed but little . |
| 9 | He had waited for over ten minutes and decided that he would give his friend another five minutes before making off home . |
| 10 | In these circumstances the conditions for unquestioned support for the statutory town planning system , which had lasted for over 30 years , were now considered debatable . |