Example sentences of "going on [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 2 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 3 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
| 4 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 5 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 6 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |