Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’
2 It was a much longer way back than the road .
3 For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away .
4 That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’
5 A dizzyingly long way below lay a long , deep arc of white-powder sand .
6 It was a horribly long way from the ground .
7 ‘ It wo n't matter if there are 100 horses in front of us , ’ he said — and launched Nijinsky 's challenge from a perilously long way back .
8 The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way .
9 And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off .
10 We had certainly made some fully justified savings in Housing Benefit but these were a very long way from the £2 billion ambitions of the Treasury .
11 ‘ Modern economics , as well as the geography of the whole of Ireland means that ultimately — and ultimately can be a very long way away — our Labour Party policy on reunification is the one that will be endorsed .
12 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
13 Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population .
14 ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year .
15 It is all a very long way from the days of the preposterous proposition , when the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics forbade its members to accept jobs in the pharmaceutical industry ( see Chapter 6 ) .
16 What river engineers have begun to do is to rediscover their roots , and these , as we shall see , go back a very long way .
17 Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way .
18 With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off .
19 Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift .
20 Such views to a very long way , especially when expressed in a credible magazine such as yours , in reinforcing subtle destructive prejudices against ethnic minorities in this country .
21 This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain .
22 These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures .
23 Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England .
24 What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it .
25 Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away .
26 To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far .
27 It was a lot bigger now and yet , and yet … still a very long way off .
28 We had both come a very long way .
29 Further difficulties arise because it is by no means clear what objects the signs are intended to represent , but even if it were , decipherment would still be a very long way off .
30 Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs .
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