Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 7 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 8 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 9 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 11 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |