---
id: 672bf1421cecb26fdf76320f
title: Task 99
challengeType: 19
dashedName: task-99
lang: en-US
---

<!-- (audio) James: Linda, looking back, how long have we been collaborating on these updates?
Linda: It's been over a year now. -->

# --instructions--

Listen to the audio and answer the question below.

# --questions--

## --text--

How long has James and Linda been collaborating?

## --answers--

Just a few months.

### --feedback--

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.

### --feedback--

Pay attention to Linda's answer. She describes a duration longer than six months.

---

Exactly one year.

### --feedback--

Linda says `over a year`, meaning the time is slightly more than one year.

## --video-solution--

2

# --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, not just a few months or exactly one year.

# --scene--

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