Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] for over [adj] " 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 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It has been established for over 100 years , and has eight offices throughout the UK and a subsidiary in Guernsey . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | Has been worked for over 100 years but currently under redevelopment and extension with a modernised shaft . |
| 9 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 10 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 15 | Two prisoners of conscience in Laos have been held for over 15 years for ‘ re-education ’ . |
| 16 | Although these basic management perspectives have been established for over 20 years , modern technology often ignores them . |
| 17 | Just because the two have been associated for over 2,000 years , there 's no reason to believe in such a link . |