Example sentences of "and [noun] for over [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 3 | Guy Salmon is a name synonymous with fine cars and service for over 50 years . |
| 4 | That matter is not really as we perceive it has been known to chemists and physicists for over 150 years , but despite Einstein 's demonstration , and that of other atomic scientists since , that matter and energy are interchangeable , we persist in our view that physical matter is solid and stable . |
| 5 | As Mao 's personal secretary and speechwriter for over 30 years , Chen was one of the ‘ Great Helmsman ’ 's closest confidants , writing countless tracts and playing a key role in the Cultural Revolution , Mao 's catastrophic campaign to purify the Communist party hierarchy and revive what he imagined to be China 's fading revolutionary ardour in the 1960s . |
| 6 | Aside from the worthlessness of double negatives , aside from the fact that McGuinness was a far more accomplished safe-breaker than Meehan ( he had earned his nickname Tank because it was said he could penetrate even one of those ) , and aside from the fact that in all the verbiage spilled out by Meehan , Waddell and McGuinness to lawyers , journalists and others for over thirteen years , none of them had so much as hinted at the idea of a quartet , there was not a scrap of worthwhile evidence to support it : it was speculation with a vengeance and extraordinary to find in a report by a judge of his standing . |
| 7 | The concept of a fixed transport link between Britain and France has exercised the minds of engineers , businessmen and politicians for over 250 years , and the first recorded scheme was put forward by physician and geologist Nicolas Desmarets in 1751 . |
| 8 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |