chieflyBritishApproaching (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.