Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 2 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 3 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 4 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 5 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 6 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 8 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 9 | We have got a long road ahead but he will get fit because he is so determined . ’ |
| 10 | Thus Galadriel says of her life , ‘ Through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat ’ . |
| 11 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 12 | I just want to briefly introduce this , I do n't want to speak in any great , we have had a long debate in house do you if you wish to engage in a long debate again in view of the time tonight . |
| 13 | We have come a long way . |
| 14 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 15 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 16 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 17 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 18 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 19 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 20 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 21 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 22 | Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough . |
| 23 | Seeing how nature treats an inept hedgehog made me very glad that we have won the long counter-insurgency war with nature in the western world : but too weak-minded a reverence for nature is going to allow us to treat fellow humans as if they were hedgehogs in the shrubbery . |