Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LITTLE goes a long way with UNICEF . |
| 2 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 3 | The theory thus involves a long phase of stillstand with a sea level considerably lower than the present one in the latter part of the Tertiary period immediately prior to the Ice Age . |
| 4 | However , if the arbitrageur already holds a long position in those shares which can not be sold short , short selling these shares can be replaced by the liquidation of some or all of the arbitrageur 's existing long positions . |
| 5 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 6 | This is a real advantage when using the A2 live and also goes a long way to keeping the engineer happy in the studio , without taking precious minutes to reprogram . |
| 7 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley is a regular , and the restaurant also goes a long way to explaining Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke 's well-rounded appearance . |
| 8 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 9 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 10 | Resuming the journey from Stone House Bridge , the road now starts a long climb to its summit , rising gently at first and with the Dee an inseparable companion alongside . |
| 11 | Educated at Cambridge and an early ‘ brain drain ’ graduate , having emigrated to the US in 1964 , he now holds a long list of academic honours in the US . |
| 12 | Experience has shown that the local appropriation of this programme often requires a long process of gestation and steady , patient work . |
| 13 | In a big house it often takes a long time for everyone to find ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 14 | This now seems a long way from the position taken in the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 and the Education ( Schools ) Act 1992 . |
| 15 | That undoubtedly goes a long way to explaining the inspectors ' report . |
| 16 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 17 | Then follows a long descent along a forest avenue to Loch Maree . |
| 18 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |