Example sentences of "still [verb] a [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Rock ’ climbing has already overtaken shopping as the number one leisure pursuit in most parts of the developed world — and still has a good way to go before it peaks .
2 He believes it still has a long way to go .
3 The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales .
4 The other part , communication , still has a long way to go .
5 It is sad that a man with so many good qualities should have led so many down the wrong path , damaging the sport he obviously loves , but I feel that the Charlie Francis story still has a long way to go .
6 The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic .
7 Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 .
8 The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) .
9 Superior still looks a long way off .
10 By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off .
11 But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off .
12 The shares are still looking a long way ahead .
13 Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go .
14 However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ .
15 I do n't know , there 's still got a long way to go though
16 I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own .
17 If you 're like me you 've still got a fair way to go !
18 At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off .
19 Thankfully that day still seems a long way off .
20 Nevertheless , the report went on , " agreement still seems a long way off " .
21 And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out !
22 The top still looked a long way away .
23 She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year .
24 True , she probably still had a long way to go .
25 The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it .
26 In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion .
27 From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past .
28 Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth .
29 The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book .
30 Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go .
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