Example sentences of "he [verb] for over [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime before Jacques married he had moved from the rue Dauphine St Andre des Arts , where he had lived from about 1714 , to the rue de Seine , in the parish of St Sulpice , where he had a large five-storey house in which he lived for over 40 years until his death in 1763 . |
| 2 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 3 | After moving to England , he fought for over two years without being defeated and reckoned : ‘ Ninety per cent of the public wanted to see me win the British title . |
| 4 | Stanley Woods won the Isle of Man TT ten times , a record he held for over 30 years . |
| 5 | After leaving the Conservatoire he became organist at Sainte-Trinité in Paris , a post he held for over 40 years . |