Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] on for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 2 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 3 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 4 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 5 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 10 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 11 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 14 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 15 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 16 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 17 | He must be getting on for seventy , and we need a younger head groom . ’ |
| 18 | Her dad must be getting on for seventy she looks as though |
| 19 | ‘ Ooh , well , let's see now , I s'pose it must be getting on for six weeks , now , ’ Cyril said . |
| 20 | Cos a boy in standard five could be getting on for thirteen . |
| 21 | By the time they had got the room cleared up and were ready to go out it would be getting on for twelve . |
| 22 | It was not that unpleasant memories were evoked , for these were always with him , his existence was inseparable from that old bitterness , but that a sight of the house , even the glimpse of a photograph , revived the precise feelings he had had — why , it must be getting on for eleven years ago . |
| 23 | It must be getting on for eleven years now since … ’ |
| 24 | And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi . |
| 25 | How , he wondered , did one set about finding a woman , last heard of in Cornwall , whose surname was Carrow — that is , if she had n't remarried — and a child who he supposed must be getting on for four . |
| 26 | This problem has been carrying on for two months or more , and so far I have not found a successful treatment . |
| 27 | ‘ We were getting on for ten when we liked it , ’ Finch said . |
| 28 | Yeah the other the other factor is now that that data is getting on for twelve months old |
| 29 | I 've done it since I was , well it 's getting on for fifteen years now . |
| 30 | Well that is , that 's getting on for two hundred and fifty pages of document . |