Example sentences of "[verb] been go [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present round of talks , which broke down and sparked the trade war between the US and Europe yesterday , has been going on for six years . |
| 2 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 3 | In another class , a boy is being cross-examined on complaints by both girls and boys in the class that he has been groping them ; it emerges through class discussion that this has been going on for two years . |
| 4 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 5 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years . |
| 7 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 8 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 9 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 13 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 14 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 15 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 16 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 17 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 18 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 19 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 20 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 21 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 22 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 23 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 25 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 26 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 27 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 28 | It is reported on the front page of The Times today that the common agricultural policy — that squalid policy which is costing British families an average of £18.50 a week each — will destroy the world free trade talks , which have been going on for four or five years , and involve just about every country in the world . |
| 29 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 30 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |