--instructions--

Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.

--fillInTheBlank--

--sentence--

It's been BLANK now.

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over a year

--feedback--

These three words together indicate a time period. They are a preposition, an article and a period of time.

--explanation--

It's been is a contraction of It has been which describes something that started in the past and continues up to now.

Over a year tells you the amount of time that has passed. Over means more than, so over a year means that the collaboration has lasted more than one year.

Now emphasizes that the statement is up-to-date and still true at this moment.

Together, It's been over a year now. means that their collaboration has lasted more than a year and continues to the present.

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