Example sentences of "[be] going on for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 2 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 6 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 8 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 9 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 10 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 11 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |