Example sentences of "well over [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the wood is not a naturally durable one , make sure it has been pressure treated to resist rot — better quality ones are guaranteed for well over five years . |
| 2 | The debate on railway privatisation in Britain has lasted for well over five years . |
| 3 | They love their jobs ( many have been with us well over four years ) and learning with them is fun . |
| 4 | Yet the press has gone through many significant changes since ideas about ‘ press freedom ’ were first discussed well over 200 years ago . |
| 5 | Windsor chairs have been produced in the Chilterns for well over 200 years in an enormous variety of types : double bows , smoker 's bows , lath backs and scroll backs to name but a few . |
| 6 | The shop and post office at Middleton Tyas , near Richmond , had already been in the King family for well over 80 years then . |
| 7 | Kurt Huber , managing director , expressed his enthusiasm for the project by saying , ‘ the Clayton Aniline Company has played its part in the life of this area for well over 100 years … and this is a further demonstration of our continuing support and commitment to the community of East Manchester ’ . |
| 8 | A mixture of silver , tin and copper amalgam has been a successful filler of teeth for well over 100 years . |
| 9 | Little did they think that it would still be going , if only just , well over 100 years later . |
| 10 | It has flourished for well over 100 years and is always held on the first weekend in July . |
| 11 | So many of that team got well over 10 years service that they just had to join the queue . |
| 12 | A mate brought me one down from Burton well over sixty years ago — and here you see I still got it . |
| 13 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 14 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 15 | I must have lived , oh , well over ninety-five years , but when I eventually meet God I want to ask him a question which has haunted me all my life . |
| 16 | Similarly it took Germany well over twenty years from 1848 , to unify the various Houses which included Prussia , Saxony and Bavaria . |
| 17 | In addition , art thefts are likely to be pursued by their rightful owners for well over twenty years . |
| 18 | I have not followed international football for well over twenty years , preferring to concentrate on the bread and butter of non-League soccer , so I have no idea what Alf Ramsey thinks . |
| 19 | It has not been in the hobby quite that long , but has , I estimate , been around for well over 30 years , and was probably the first Apisto to be kept in captivity . |
| 20 | Well over 30 years later , renewed speculation as to the cause of Mozart 's premature death was prompted by an extraordinary confession said to have been made by Salieri — then in his 70s , extremely ill , and mentally unstable . |
| 21 | One of the reasons why items well over 150 years old can still be found in many houses today is that to look after linen properly it was ‘ rested ’ between laundering and use . |
| 22 | There has been a village here for well over 1,000 years . |
| 23 | This larger scheme was not planned and implemented till well over 50 years later . |
| 24 | Mozart 's father , Leopold — himself a musician — recognised that his son was an infant prodigy and took him away from Salzburg on a concert tour of Western Europe which lasted well over three years . |