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Over+时间短语 时态用法总结WORD CHOICE: since, for, during, overUse since to say that something started at a point in time in the past, and is still continuing : He has been living in Leeds since 1998. | Weve known about it since May. Since is usually followed by a time expression (last year, this morning, 4 oclock etc) or by the simple past tense. Use the present perfect or the past perfect in the other clause : I have loved movies since I first went to the cinema. |He had been seriously ill since Christmas.!! Speakers of British English usually say it is a long time/two weeks etc since ..., and speakers of American English it has been a long time/two weeks etc since ..., but both uses are correct : Its weeks (BrE)/Its been weeks (AmE) since I saw Grandma.Use for when you state the length of time that something has been happening : We have known each other for ten years (NOT since ten years). | I had been waiting for hours (NOT since hours). |I havent seen him for ages (NOT since ages).During and over are used when you state the period of time in which something happens or changes : During her first year at college, she had several boyfriends. | Over the last six months, crime has doubled.“over the past/last +时间短语“修饰句子谓语，表示during/through用现在完成时 新prep--188. Neuroscientists, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acquire language.新PREP--224. (GWD-12-Q13) Although energy prices have tripled in the United States over the last two years, research indicates that few people have significantly reduced the amount of driving they do or made fuel efficiency a priority when shopping for cars.旧PREP—138 According to scientists at the University of Alaska, while the surface temperature of the globe has risen over the last century by about one degree Fahrenheit, the surface temperature in Alaska, Siberia, and northwestern C