Example sentences of "[be] go for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 2 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 3 | It was been going for two years . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been going for 18 years and you get fan-tastic value for money , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 6 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 8 | Micropal measures volatility for all unit trusts which have been going for three years . |
| 9 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 11 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 12 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 13 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 14 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 15 | But all the wealth and all the lands of the Talliens could not provide the one element that Nora sought : the fragrance of the oaks — the smell of Normandy in spring ; for spring was gone for another year . |
| 16 | Desimir set out with his six wagonloads of treasure , and was gone for three years . |