Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] be going for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 2 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 3 | Well you have to think , International Women 's Day has been going for just about a hundred years . |
| 4 | Although the actual game has been going for over 65 years there was a slight change made in 1943 when the event became a charity match to raise funds for the specific purpose of the prevention of blindness . |
| 5 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 6 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |