Example sentences of "have been going [adv prt] [prep] [num] " 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 The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years .
3 In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years .
4 The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years .
5 ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added .
6 Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years .
7 The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years .
8 He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint .
9 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 .
10 Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike .
11 Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years .
12 ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years .
13 ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ?
14 Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment .
15 Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent .
16 It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world .
17 The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 .
18 My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm .
19 But it 's been going on for two years . ’
20 it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop .
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