Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a horribly long way from the ground . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The extension of the idea that disability confers the right to certain benefits , to the identification of a group with civil rights of a more comprehensive kind , moves the concept of a disability a very long way from chronic sickness . |
| 5 | But he was still a very long way from knowing enough to judge the value of what each of them had chosen , or would choose to tell him , and what they would , for differing reasons , see fit to suppress . |
| 6 | Of course , the Planck energy is a very long way from the energies of around a hundred GeV , which are the most that we can produce in the laboratory at the present time . |
| 7 | As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done . |
| 8 | Now Prague is a very long way from Epernay . |
| 9 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 10 | There are still many areas in Great Britain where there are test centres who are an awful long way from the motorway , and at the moment , Banbury is in that position , so the driving test would have to be at least something like 2 or 3 hours duration by the time they got out there and driven . |