But that discussion has taken place on and off for years with no success.

Further discussions will take place over the next three months.

Those discussions have been taking place for almost a year.

The term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place.

Discussions had been taking place since the middle of last week.

Several discussions had taken place at a senior level, the person said.

"Discussions are taking place in a way that simply wasn't the case five or six years ago."

Several discussions took place during the meeting, including on trade and nuclear power.

But Arab officials here said that no discussion of the bank project took place.

The discussion, he said, would take place in various stages over several years.