He stayed married over a quarter of a century.
This "over" has two possibilities? a time span..like "over many years"
and "over" means more than?
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Sign up to join this communityYes, that's right. Over can have either meaning:
Context could make one meaning or the other obvious, but in this case we have no context so all we can say is that it's ambiguous.