Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 2 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 3 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 4 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 5 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 6 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 7 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 8 | If you are going abroad for three months or more , tell your local social security office well in advance . |
| 9 | Pensions can be paid to an overseas address , if you are going abroad for three months or more . |
| 10 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 11 | Ideally , the EC Commission would step in with a way to prevent the disruption of trade ; but it has been trying unsuccessfully for many months to steer a directive on packaging waste through the council of ministers . |
| 12 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |