Example sentences of "been going [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 2 | ‘ They realised just what the people in Northern Ireland have been going through for 25 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Negotiations had been going on for 17 months before the strike . |
| 6 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Their success revealed the misunderstanding had been going on for six years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 11 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The work at Grendon Prison has been going on for 30 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 17 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 18 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 19 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 20 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 21 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 22 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ This has been going on for ten years , ’ he added . |
| 29 | Although we have been going there for 10 years the excitement of seeing all our friends will never ever die and I hope it is going to stay a good , clean Holiday site for many years . |
| 30 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |