Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the cost of physical imports has exceeded the value of exported products for over a century . |
| 2 | The snowdrops at Painswick have been a popular attraction for over a century . |
| 3 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 4 | After all , if you can borrow ( or exchange your existing UK mortgage where you are paying rates at the highest level in real terms for over a century ) for a Swiss franc mortgage at around 9.5 per cent , a mark mortgage at just under 10 per cent , an Ecu mortgage ( Ecu is the European currency unit which is made up of a ‘ basket ’ of 10 currencies including sterling ) at about 10 per cent or a Japanese yen mortgage at just under 8 per cent , why not do so ? |
| 5 | Because the company has been on its present site for over a century it recognises its responsibilities to the environment and to the local community . |
| 6 | Right , so you think that Margaret Thatcher , having been Prime Minister for over a decade and having nominated her heir apparent , and having left in erm a rather tearful manner and being pushed out , you think that she said ‘ right , from now on it 's hands off ’ ? |
| 7 | The conference , the first general feminist-socialist conference for over a decade , attracted over 400 women from across the country . |
| 8 | For years , neglected in the centre of Oxford , it 's been a rest-spot for the weary taxi-driver for over a century and now 's lovingly restored and converted into a shop . |
| 9 | Consider then this year 's winner , the Mayan Indian peace-worker , Rigoberta Menchu , who has campaigned for the rights of Guatemala 's oppressed indigenous majority for over a decade . |
| 10 | Beccaria 's offer of a less radical alternative , says Jenkins , had the effect of postponing the positivist revolution for over a century . |
| 11 | As the Thatcher government gradually recovered from a shaky and difficult start to retain power by a hugely increased majority in 1983 , followed by another overwhelming electoral triumph ( in seats if not in votes ) in 1987 and as the spectacle was observed in 1989 of a Prime Minister remaining in unchallenged power for over a decade , comparable to Lord Liverpool if not yet Robert Walpole in the past , the belief took hold that the values and style of modern Britain had been transformed . |