Example sentences of "long it [be] go " in BNC.

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1 Obviously , the amount you choose to repay each month will determine how long it is going to take you to pay-off any borrowing on your FlexiLoan. but , you can also pay-in a lump sum at any time ( eg. when you receive a bonus from work ) to help reduce the amount outstanding , or to pay it off completely .
2 ‘ I wonder how long it 's going to take us to wear them smooth . ’
3 Well I ca n't predict how long it 's going to be now and y and you may find ,
4 but you do n't know just how long it 's going to be going on .
5 I do n't know how long it 's going to go on for , or what it is exactly but I thought it would be a good idea to ring your dad up and see .
6 We wondered , out loud and quite often , what was going on and how long it was going on for , but by the end of May we knew that something was definitely in the wind .
7 One would literally get letters from eight to eighty , with a tremendous number of university students , all asking questions about the motivation of the series , how long it was going to carry on , questions I was n't even qualified to answer sometimes .
8 ‘ I wonder how long it was going on ?
9 Erm , we had an example advert early on that we actually read through , for the simple reason of finding how long it was going to take , so we had a target as to how long we needed the advert to be very early on and we could work to that .
10 What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need .
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