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Mashmellow Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

over+time

if "over" is followed by a period of time such as "over 8 years "or "over a month". can it be used in any(past, present, future) tense?
  

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I've been waiting for him for over an hours. I can order your new car now, but you'll have to wait for over a month before you receive it. She stayed with us for over a month, then moved to a small flat in London.

  • I've been waiting for him for over an hours.
  • I can order your new car now, but you'll have to wait for over a month before you receive it.
  • She stayed with us for over a month, then moved to a small flat in London.
  • I'm staying here for over a week, so we'll have the opportunity to meet again.
  • So yes, it looks like you can use all these tenses with "over + period of time".
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I've been waiting for him for over an hours.

I can order your new car now, but you'll have to wait for over a month before you receive it.

She stayed with us for over a month, then moved to a small flat in London.

I'm staying here for over a week, so we'll have the opportunity to meet again.

So yes, it looks like you can use all these tenses with "over + period
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"over" also has this very important meaning in time related sentences:

6 a : THROUGHOUT, DURING <many times prime minister of his country
over the past 25 years -- Geoffrey Godsell> <lost the use of their
eyes through living underground over many generations -- S.F.Mason>
<had written it nights and

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