Example sentences of "[be] going on [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICL 's parallel engine will effectively productise work that has been going on since 1989 under the auspices of a European Community Esprit II project known as the European Declarative System , EDS . |
| 2 | For three years , between July 1936 and April 1939 , two opposing forces attempted to settle by military means a dispute which had been going on since 1931 over what form the state should take in Spain . |
| 3 | He believes that the bourgeois epoch of history is in its terminal crisis , but concedes that this crisis may have been going on since 1848 , which stretches not only ‘ bourgeois ’ but ‘ crisis ’ to breakingpoint . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 7 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 16 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 17 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 18 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 19 | er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room . |
| 20 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |