Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This practice has been followed for over 300 years at High Bridge End , St. John 's in the Vale , and until recently at Adamthwaite in the Howgills , and it is referred to in Langdale also . |
| 2 | An association between hypertension and diabetes has been suspected for over 70 years . |
| 3 | Northern Ireland has been warring for over 20 years . |
| 4 | ‘ OPTIONS ’ has been running for over ten years in America , four years on the UK mainland and over two years in the province . |
| 5 | This interspecific backcross mapping panel has been typed for over 700 loci that are well distributed among all the autosomes as well as the X chromosome ( 35 ) . |
| 6 | Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning . |
| 7 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 8 | The playground at Brockweir school has been deserted for over a year , once a 100 children were educated at this small village school , but it was closed last year because of declining numbers . |
| 9 | That is ludicrous because the term has been used for over ten years , it was coined by Labour councillors and has even been used jokingly by the people it referred to . |
| 10 | It has been established for over 100 years , and has eight offices throughout the UK and a subsidiary in Guernsey . |
| 11 | Libyan politics has been dominated for over two decades by Col. Moamer al Kadhafi who came to power in the military coup of 1969 [ see p. 23569 ] . |
| 12 | Has been worked for over 100 years but currently under redevelopment and extension with a modernised shaft . |
| 13 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 14 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 15 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 16 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 17 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 18 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 19 | In February the King released 313 political prisoners , including prisoners of conscience Jogen Gazmere and Sushil Pokhrel , who had been detained for over two years without trial . |
| 20 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 21 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 22 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 23 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 24 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 25 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 26 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 27 | Some asylum seekers have been detained for over a year . |
| 28 | Professor Davies , Dr S G Wheatcroft and others have been engaged for over ten years in a study of Soviet industrialisation , with special reference to the crucial years 1926-1937 in which the foundations of the present economic system were established . |
| 29 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 30 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |