Example sentences of "going [adv] [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 2 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 3 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 4 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 5 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 6 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 7 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 8 | I 'm going abroad for a short time … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ These stories have been going round for a long time , and they grow with the telling . ’ |