Example sentences of "on it for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This system is still available today but no new work has been attempted on it for 18 months . |
| 2 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 3 | Around 1920 when Eliot , with anthropological ideas in the forefront of his mind , had attacked Gilbert Murray 's translations of Euripides , Pound tried to persuade him to translate Aeschylus ' Agamemnon , but Eliot ‘ sat on it for eight months or some longer period ’ . |
| 4 | George made a long thinking , grumbling noise , then said , mostly to himself : ‘ The paperwork must have been good … if they were living on it for eighteen months … they were n't escaped prisoners of war trying to reach Switzerland on a hand-copied Fremdenpass … |
| 5 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 6 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 7 | Course he 's been on it for six weeks . |
| 8 | hand me swinging on it for ten minutes |
| 9 | No , it 's only a te , well I mean you can only stay on it for ten months a year . |
| 10 | There has n't been anyone on it for thousands of years ! ’ |
| 11 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 12 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 13 | See I , mind you whenever I 'm late you see I can get on it for twenty pence except for first thing in morning . |