Example sentences of "has [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 . |