Example sentences of "has [be] going [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
5 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
6 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |