Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 2 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 3 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 4 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 5 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 6 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |