Example sentences of "[been] going [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 2 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 3 | ‘ It just seems not a lot has been going right for me this season . |
| 4 | The marquees have been going up for the Hay on Wye festival of Literature which begins tonight . |
| 5 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 6 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 7 | And Friends of the Earth it 's only relatively new it 's only been going properly for what two years . |
| 8 | It has been going on for too long . |
| 9 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 10 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 14 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 15 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 16 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |
| 17 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 18 | During a civil action that has been going on for years over ownership , he was made a ward of court and his bones kept in shoe boxes in a bank . ’ |
| 19 | A sort of messy , mucky drama has been going on for years , about unselectivity and conglomeration : ‘ Let them have the experience , all of them , every one of them , every minute of every time ! ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’ |
| 21 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But most sociologists , and now many social anthropologists also , are dealing with complex literate societies in which the accumulation of documents of one sort or another has been going on for centuries . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now , butterflies live only a matter of weeks , and yet this has been going on for years . |
| 28 | Talks have been going on for weeks over the future of the Royal marriage , but despite repeated attempts to save it , the Queen finally decided it was all over on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 29 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |