Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on it for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 2 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 3 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 5 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 6 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |