Example sentences of "has [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment .
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 There will also be some kind of performance boost for DB2 — either more microcode or conceivably the dedicated DB2 processor that IBM has been speculating about for 10 years now .
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