Example sentences of "[verb] for over [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 2 | Thus in 1786 , on the death of Sir Horace Mann , the British envoy to the grand duke of Tuscany , the post was filled for over six months by his nephew , who had no recognised diplomatic status at all . |
| 3 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 4 | The Ostrogothic era ; Ravenna was taken by Theodoric in 493 and he ruled for over 30 years . |
| 5 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 6 | The Company 's Pest Control service covering Norfolk and Suffolk has moved from Norwich where it operated for over 30 years . |
| 7 | Details were traced for over 30000 workers involved in the construction of the large oil terminals in the Shetland and Orkney islands in northern Scotland or employed offshore . |
| 8 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 9 | In 1973 there were 21 sixth form colleges in England ; by 1988 there were 104 , catering for over 64,000 pupils . |
| 10 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 11 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 12 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 13 | The most certain of these is that employment in the primary sector has fallen for over 100 years , and continues to fall by around 2 to 3 per cent a year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A powerful figure in Ragusa was the Benedictine friar Mavro Vetranović , who was born in 1482 and who lived for over eighty years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Poles from the other areas of partitioned Poland rose up and fought for over eight months in support of his efforts to halt the dismemberment of the Polish state . |
| 18 | The changing distributions between 1970 and 1980 on this index have been calculated for over 100 countries , with some surprising results . |
| 19 | Mrs Shaw , 30 , claimed the train , with more than 100 passengers on board , was delayed for over five minutes . |
| 20 | Delayed for over four years , Nagisa Oshima 's Max Mon Amour features Charlotte Rampling indulging in extramarital horseplay , or rather between-the-sheets monkey business with her lover Max , a chimp . |
| 21 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | And when the château the Princesse had now occupied for over twenty years emerged from amidst snow-clad trees halfway up an escarpment , she felt dizzy with the beauty of it all . |
| 24 | Comments : Large school hall with seating for over 200 people . |
| 25 | On the fourth side was the meeting chamber or auditorium which provided seating for over 1200 persons . |
| 26 | Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker are all graduates and have each been painting for over 20 years . |
| 27 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 28 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 29 | This implies that mispricings ( although not necessarily arbitrage opportunities ) tended to persist for over 20 minutes . |
| 30 | It would have been frozen for over thirty years . |