Example sentences of "[vb -s] been going for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Providing the plan has been going for ten years . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 3 | ‘ Our factory in Scotland has been going for 15 years ’ says Smillie . |
| 4 | I suppose I 've seen Matthew with the safe open , and I may have noticed the books , but this firm has been going for more than a century and one does n't take much notice of such things , one has grown up with them . ’ |
| 5 | The Shrove Tuesday game has been going for 960 years . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 8 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 9 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |