Sentence examples for stood for three years from inspiring English sources
On August 22nd the International Congress of Mathematicians awarded Dr Perelman its highest honour, the Fields medal, for his solution which, having stood for three years, is now taken as correct.Poincaré's conjecture is important not for its practical applications, but because a vast quantity of mathematical work assumes that it is true.
In 1993, Czech javelin thrower Jan Zelezny set a new world record of 95.66m (313ft) - a record that stood for three years before Zelezny himself broke it at an event in Germany.
His last record stood for eight years.
And there matters stood for eight years.
His 2003 world record stood for four years.
There they stood for four years, forming the Wall of Hope and Remembrance.
I stood for twenty years a chess piece in Córdoba, the black rook.
His time of 10.2 seconds in 1951 stood for five years.
At 20, Ryun set a world record, 3 51.1, that stood for eight years.
He'd just broken the four-hundred-metre world record, which had stood for seventeen years.
The $846,000 hybrid-electric supercar broke a record that had stood for four years on its first attempt.
