Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] been going on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 2 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | I understand that revision of the regulations , which has been going on for sometime , is reaching its final phase . |
| 5 | As my hon. and learned Friend has accepted the closure of Bir Zeit is part of the systematic infringement of the Geneva convention by Israel which has been going on for years , should not a more robust approach therefore be taken , both by our Government and by the European Community , and should not economic measures at some stage be taken in relation to Israel to prevent the continuation of such unacceptable violations of human rights and of the Geneva convention ? |
| 6 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 7 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 9 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 10 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 13 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 14 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 15 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 16 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 17 | It 's been going on for months |
| 18 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 19 | it 's been going on for |
| 20 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |