Example sentences of "it 's be [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ?
2 Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years
3 It 's been happening for hundreds of years .
4 Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that .
5 And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow .
6 Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester .
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