Example sentences of "been going on [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party .
2 Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go .
3 After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms .
4 Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years .
5 it 's been going on now for what ?
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