Example sentences of "[verb] on for decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 2 | The relationship between cash crops , particularly those for export , and subsistence crops for local consumption , has occasioned an intense and sometimes bitter debate that has been going on for decades , if not centuries , and goes to the very heart of the global capitalist system and its transnational contradictions . |
| 3 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 4 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 5 | Mr James Munby , who is representing 21-year-old Tony 's interests , told Lords Keith , Goff , Lowry , Browne-Wilkinson and Mustill that he could live on for decades . |
| 6 | The war dragged on for decades . |
| 7 | In terms of war , AIDS looks more like one of those medieval struggles that dragged on for decades than a relatively swift modern conflict . |
| 8 | Yet not all instances of theory replacement are quite so straightforward , for some have rumbled on for decades . |