Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 2 | We are talking of them being competitive a long way down the road . ’ |
| 3 | PLANTS should come a long way down the list of priorities for the novice gardener . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'll go round , ’ said Simon , ‘ a couple more times , just so you can see what a long way down it is , and then , when we get right up there , right to the top , I 'm going to chuck you out . ’ |
| 5 | At present they ‘ share ’ the offence of indecent assault with many minor forms of misconduct , such as giving an unwanted kiss or fondling clothes being worn by someone else , for which the penalty is likely to be a long way down the scale . |
| 6 | In the never-never land of unreal prices , widespread subsidies and easy bank loans , using resources efficiently to make profits comes a long way down the list of priorities . |
| 7 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 8 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 9 | The ‘ cat in the hat ’ effort that will see the Macintosh environment on other RISC processors , appears to be a different effort again , and may be a long way down the road , licensing issues aside . |
| 10 | The ‘ cat in the hat ’ effort that will see the Macintosh environment on other RISC processors , appears to be a different effort again , and may be a long way down the road , licensing issues aside . |
| 11 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 12 | It 's a long way down fifty feet or more . |
| 13 | No , oh no , certainly not , but , but I mean before we get to the prescriptive level which is quite er a , a long way down the road , at the analytic level I think , I think Anne-Marie 's point is she 's trying to understand erm just what the the significances of these difference in parental investment are . |
| 14 | If we were to decriminalize drug taking we would probably go a long way down the road to solving the problem . |
| 15 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 16 | A fully integrated policy 's a long way down the road |
| 17 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |
| 18 | It 's a long way down Ray ! |
| 19 | It was a long way down this road , I was right . |
| 20 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 21 | Goalkeeper Andy Goram hoisted a long punt down field , McCoist headed across the edge of the box and the much-travelled striker spun onto his left foot to hammer the ball into the far corner . |
| 22 | It was a long distance down the great side of the hill , through the woods down to the estuary . |
| 23 | Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track . |
| 24 | The field stretched in a long oblong down the valley side , filling their eyes . |
| 25 | The buses and coaches which had brought the marchers into town were parked opposite the entrance in a long line down the road . |