Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face .
2 The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families .
3 ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine .
4 because it 's been going on a long time .
5 But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time .
6 It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement .
7 In cases where a tumour suppressor gene is inactivated , repetitive cellular repair may lead to uncontrolled cell division and malignant transformation ; a putative tumour suppressor gene has been described on the long arm of chromosome 17 .
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