Example sentences of "[am/are] a long way [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 2 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 3 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
| 4 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 5 | That the social sciences are a long way from devising scales which even approximate to the temperature scale is not to be wondered at . |
| 6 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 7 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |