Example sentences of "it was a long [noun sg] from " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated .
2	Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf .
3	It was a long way from Brewer Street .
4	Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured .
5	The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled .
6	It was a long way from New York , let alone the West Coast , Beatles , Stones , and all .
7	It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment .
8	It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier .
9	It was a long drive from the airport , made tedious by the unnatural , tense silence in the cab .
10	It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence …
11	But it was a long step from this to Meade 's contention that the government could by its adjustment of demand raise the level of employment permanently .
12	It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger .

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