Example sentences of "going on for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 2 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 3 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 8 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 9 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |