Example sentences of "long way [verb] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell .
2 The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic .
3 However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities .
4 There 's a long way to go before it sounds natural . ’
5 A great deal of the plant is now under computerised control although there is still a long way to go before it is as automated as other maltings in the group .
6 Romania has a long way to go before it can even begin to climb out of its paralysis .
7 Such difficult transition demands time and balance and Romania has a long way to go before it is comfortable with its new identity .
8 I 've a long way to go when it comes to these explanations .
9 The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator .
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