Example sentences of "[vb -s] been going [adv] for [num] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added .
5 Plant collecting has been going on for thousands of years .
6 The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years .
7 But it 's been going on for two years . ’
8 it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop .
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