Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long way [prep] " 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 horribly long way from the ground . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 5 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 6 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 7 | It 's , it 's a very long way to cycle , is it er , have you done anything like before Chris ? |
| 8 | Sorry , this is a very long way of getting around to the first crop of reviews of Philip Larkin : A Writer 's Life by Andrew Motion ( Faber ) . |
| 9 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 10 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 11 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 12 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now Prague is a very long way from Epernay . |
| 20 | CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |