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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Over

The treatment lasted over a year.
This means more than a year OR the treatment took for a year?
  

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more than For the other meaning, one would usually say it another way.

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  • more than For the other meaning, one would usually say it another way.
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more than

For the other meaning, one would usually say it another way.
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Anonymous The treatment lasted over a year.This means more than a year OR the treatment took for a year?
It took [ a year / more than a year = over a year / less than a year = under a year ].

CJ
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Thank you ,
so over in this sentence means any of those meaning you said??
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Anonymousso over in this sentence means any of those meaning you said?
No, no, no! You are having difficulty understanding the symbols. The following:

It took [ a year / more than a year = over a year / less than a year = under a year ].

means that you can correctly say any of these:

1 It took a year.
2 It took more than a year
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Thank you.
According to the Japanese translation of this sentence,
The treatment lasted over a year.
means "It took for a year", like "We had to discuss the issue over the summer."
so, for a year and more than a year, both are ok? though meaning is different.
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I see. You're focused specifically on "last" rather than "take".

It turns out that

The treatment lasted over a year.

is ambiguous. It can mean either of these, depending on the definition of over:

1. The treatment lasted a year. (It took exactly one year to do the treatment.)
2. The treatment lasted more than a year. (It took more than one y
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