Sentence examples for has stood for almost from inspiring English sources
It has been scorched into the crumbling facade of the Amir Tadros Coptic Church, which has stood for almost 100 years.
Argentine forward Messi, 27, will equal Telmo Zarra's league total of 251 goals if he scores at the Bernabeu, a record that has stood for almost 60 seasons.
Beilenson's bill, motivated by a conviction that California's critical air pollution crisis could not be solved by gasoline powered autos, has stood for almost half a century as an example of environmental over-reach.
The tower had stood for almost 1,000 years.
In a season that saw not one but two quarterbacks break the single-season passing record, which had stood for almost thirty years, or a football century, the quarterback who earned the most headlines compiled some of the worst statistics in recent memory, and yet somehow — miraculously?
The play was widely taken as a metaphor for US foreign policy – [Uncle] Sam dominating [Union] Jack – but, in a preface to the corrected text, the dramatist explained that, while she had always intended Sam to represent America, his victim could have stood for almost anywhere in the world and so she changed the second character's name to the more universal name of Guy.
The National Hurricane Center said Florence broke a North Carolina rainfall record that had stood for almost 20 years: Preliminary reports showed Swansboro got more than 30 inches (75 centimeters) and counting, obliterating the mark set in 1999, when Hurricane Floyd dropped just over 24 inches (60 centimeters) on the state.
Mo Farah marked his first and only appearance on the track in Britain in 2014 – not to mention his twin daughters' second birthday – by smashing the British two- mile record, a mark that has stood for nearly 36 years, by almost six seconds, in Birmingham.
And he has to persuade his Socialist Party on reforms that undo almost everything the party has stood for in the past.
