Example sentences of "went on for [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virginia had no property qualifications to limit men 's right to vote until 1670 , and this was a little more like the usual arrangements in a company , where all shareholders were able to vote , than the position in parliamentary elections , where property qualifications for voting went on for hundreds of years to come . |
| 2 | I was meant to talk for fifteen minutes but I went on for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 3 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |
| 4 | A demand for the ‘ noblest ’ architecture inevitably meant that Nonconformity was caught up in the debates over the value of Gothic architecture which went on for most of the Victorian period . |
| 5 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |