Example sentences of "go [adv prt] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 2 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 3 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 4 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 5 | He went there and back and do nothing to the people bol er er involved , being consulted and we 've had that going on for two years no consultation here has taken place with the people who it affects and there 's nothing in your motion to say it will . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 14 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 15 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 16 | Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period . |
| 17 | But what you 're doing here I think it is er , er an example of the partnership , a partnership that goes back for many years , certainly during World War Two and I think er it is still strong and er holds firm today the partnership between the United States and Great Britain . |
| 18 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 19 | Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms . |
| 20 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 21 | The effects of reducing sleep on sleep patterns have been studied in a number of relatively short experiments , and one which went on for two years . |
| 22 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 23 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 24 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 25 | Madam Speaker in view of the fact that the real value of pensions has gone down for many years now following the break . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's like a time bomb you carry round with you , ’ Arty said , ‘ and the alarm might n't go off for twenty-five years . ’ |
| 27 | In the end my parents agreed that I could go up for one year instead of being at the Royal College of Music . |
| 28 | However the subscription has not gone up for 2 years and it is only a 15p per week rise . |
| 29 | I also have a girlfriend who went out for several years with a man who did n't wear underpants at all and only washed his jeans once a month . |