Example sentences of "all a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |
| 2 | All a long way from a pint of mild and a bag of chips after a night at the City Varieties … |
| 3 | It 's all a long way from those bit-parts and Lynda 's delighted to be making her mark — even if it did mean changing career . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're all a long way below us . ’ |
| 5 | Nor did Egypt , which is after all a long way to the east of Cyrene ( Athens being nearer to Cyrene than is the Nile ) make much impact except in a few points of ritual . |
| 6 | But they 're all a long way off , and they look very faint . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , it 's all a long way off , ’ Joanna said cheerfully . |
| 8 | It was all a roundabout way of saying that Sien was synonymous with sorrow , and perhaps as well he was referring to the sorrowing mother of their childhood . |