Example sentences of "is a [adv] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a famously long time-lag between when work is done and when the Nobel committee doles out accolades for it . |
| 2 | There is a very long tradition of collaboration between education and employers that stretches back to the foundation of the Mechanics Institutes in the nineteenth century — and to their even earlier precursors the Dissenting Academies — and developing through the technical colleges , colleges of advanced technology , technological universities and colleges of further and higher education . |
| 3 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 4 | Of course , the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV , which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time . |
| 5 | Now Prague is a very long way from Epernay . |
| 6 | A month is a very long tim in fotbal . |