Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] on for [art] " 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 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 8 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 9 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 10 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 11 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 13 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 14 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 17 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |