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单词 getting on for
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getting on for

chiefly British Approaching (a specified time, age, or amount); almost: there are getting on for 700 staff...
  • He's getting on for 80 but it doesn't stop him doing anything.
  • I have not seen any use as a haulage yard for getting on for two years.
  • He was a chap who was getting on for 50, I should think, a lieutenant quartermaster, not a fighting man at all, and yet he'd brought up all these rations.
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