Example sentences of "for over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August , she was still working at Chessington-Harris as Leo 's secretary ; but for over a year their relationship had been considerably warmer than any of their colleagues realized . |
| 2 | For over a century the control of certain aspects of British social life has rested in the hands of the police forces of England and Wales . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | ‘ Mrs Henry Cox ’ , too busy for some but a favourite with many for over a century |
| 5 | Her iconography remained more or less constant for over a century until the period of the Napoleonic Wars , at the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These attitudes are in striking contrast to the British tradition , where party conflict is the primary institutional feature of Westminster and has been for over a century . |
| 8 | The mill was owned and operated by successive members of the Tayloe family for over a century , until it was eventually sold by Hester Tayloe . |
| 9 | The mill also housed a bakehouse on the lower floor , several bake-ovens set in the rear wall being largely intact , surviving as a reminder of what was once an important local trade , carried on at Aston mill for over a century . |
| 10 | Its ten pavilions were to serve Paris for over a century and to take their place in the city 's folklore . |
| 11 | Working-class community life is as strongly established in Glasgow as anywhere , and football violence has occurred there for over a century . |
| 12 | For over a century the presence of large urban markets , which need much fresh milk , has encouraged the farmers to keep dairy cows . |
| 13 | For over a century the medieval churches which remained had been museums in the care of the European Sector , but it had proved impossible to balance their antiquarian value against the considerable costs of allowing religious practice to take place within them . |
| 14 | Darwin 's explanation of bright colour has lain dormant and untested for over a century . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , Arnold 's and Van Praagh 's schools laid the foundations for over a century of controversy and the beginning of the end of sign-language-dominated educational systems . |
| 16 | This appointment was unique , and was the only instance of its kind — it was also to be the last for over a century , because Edward A. Kirk was deaf . |
| 17 | After the partitions Poland became invisible for over a century , its character dissolved , its history overlaid with that of the partitioning powers . |
| 18 | The Napoleonic model in France , even though it survived virtually unaltered for over a century and a half , eventually had to yield to demands for a wider measure of regional self-government , and over the past years schemes of regional devolution have been instituted . |
| 19 | Now that the shouting is over and the most homophobic piece of legislation for over a century is on the statute books , lesbians and gays are picking themselves up and asking if our involvement with local government was really worth the effort . |
| 20 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 21 | It is after all unlikely that any culture conflict present when British courts were first established would continue unresolved and unchanged for over a century . |
| 22 | For over a century the accountancy profession has built its reputation on three foundation stones : objectivity , integrity and competence . |
| 23 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 24 | For over a century , Amdega have been designing and building the highest quality conservatories . |
| 25 | For over a century intermittent warfare blazed . |
| 26 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
| 27 | Similarly , although the ethnography of British rather than colonial life is only a recent development within academic sociology , the discipline having been associated with the statistical method from its earliest beginnings ( Abrams 1968 ) , there has been , for over a century , a major tradition of such work by novelists , journalists and social reformers ( Keating 1976 ) ; a tradition which culminated in the work of Orwell , perhaps the most influential British social analyst of this century . |
| 28 | The Conservatives had dominated Hampshire county politics for over a century . |
| 29 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 30 | Beccaria 's offer of a less radical alternative , says Jenkins , had the effect of postponing the positivist revolution for over a century . |