curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-past-activities/672bf1421cecb26fdf76320f.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
How long has James and Linda been collaborating?
Just a few months.
Listen carefully to Linda's response. She mentions a specific time period that's longer than a few months.
Over a year.
About six months.
Pay attention to Linda's answer. She describes a duration longer than six months.
Exactly one year.
Linda says over a year, meaning the time is slightly more than one year.
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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, not just a few months or exactly one year.
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