Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 4 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |