Example sentences of "[noun] go on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 2 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 3 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 4 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 5 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |