Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only 32 horse power available I had expected a considerably longer ground , but we were off the ground in about 150 metres , although from then on acceleration and climb were adequate rather than startling . |
| 2 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 3 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 4 | why were the Neanderthals , who as a species of human being had had a much longer pedigree , vulnerable to the Cro-Magnons ? |
| 5 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |