Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [been] going [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 2 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 3 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | A charming little intimate orgy has been going on for centuries . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that picking the seam has been going on for years , but tampering with the ball is a different matter . |
| 7 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 8 | This phenomenon has been going on for long enough in Shetland waters for it to be given a local name of ‘ fuglicaa ’ , which is derived from old Norse ‘ fugl ’ meaning bird and ‘ caa ’ to drive ( as in sheep ) — literally a ‘ bird-drive ’ . |
| 9 | Erm if we knew the answer and this problem has been going on for for nine months . |
| 10 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |