Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flints containing sponges may be incorporated into younger sediments ( they are then known as derived fossils ) , and it is not unusual for such flints to be dug up in suburban gardens around London — a long journey from the Cretaceous seas . |
| 2 | He took a long drink from the bottle of wine , saying , ‘ Here 's luck ! ’ |
| 3 | It was a long drive from the airport , made tedious by the unnatural , tense silence in the cab . |
| 4 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
| 5 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 6 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 7 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 8 | The town of Isafjördur is on the far side of the fjord , a long way from the town , and reached by a bus ride past the first fish-drying frame you will see in this part of the island . |
| 9 | Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be . |
| 10 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 11 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 12 | The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting . |
| 13 | Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town . |
| 14 | But it is a long way from the recognition of such local features to the interpretation of whole scenes . |
| 15 | This tool is a long way from the cheapest heat guns . |
| 16 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 17 | It is certainly a long way from the crowds cheering at John F. Kennedy 's ‘ Ich bin ein Berliner ’ speech in front of the Berlin Wall in 1962 to the communiqué issued after Honecker 's visit to West Germany in 1987 : ‘ both states agreed to respect the sovereignty and independence of each other in both domestic and foreign matters ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I think that we are getting a long way from the subject , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 20 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 21 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 22 | Although she lived a long way from the town , she seldom missed Brownie Pack Meeting . |
| 23 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 24 | Practice was a long way from the standard understanding of the concept of budgets based on explicit workloads and levels of activity . |
| 25 | He 's a long way from the roots of the sport . |
| 26 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
| 27 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 28 | The Signature 's pickup is rather oddly placed a long way from the end of the neck ( obviously by request ) while the JD 's is in the normal position . |
| 29 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a long way from the back streets of Brixton to the green fields of Huntingdon , ’ he impressed on the county set . |