Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you round out the aircraft floats for a long way and flies very nose down . |
| 2 | Pemberton hit the post from a long way out for Leeds . |
| 3 | Moreover , the pretty paper kites in the clear blue skies still outnumber the documentary versions by a long way . |
| 4 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 5 | It was a heck of a long way up there as well was n't it ? |
| 6 | The priority for those of us who live along and use the north Kent line is that line itself , and the £1 billion saved on the project would go a devil of a long way to sorting out the line . |
| 7 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 8 | Jimmy Smith polled ten per cent … surprisingly he was beaten by Steve Coppell … but the top two were way ahead … second big Billy Hamilton the ex United striker … and top by a long way the man who could n't live at the Manor with the Maxwells … |
| 9 | In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training . |
| 10 | You 'll be able to see them two houses from a long way away . |
| 11 | He still seemed so real , so close that she could feel his disapproval , and somehow she felt he was using will-power from a long way off . |
| 12 | Not all of those people by a long way have any olympic ambitions but is nonetheless an important part of the perspective and indeed at the triangle that we need to support . |
| 13 | We take a frozen river for a long way , a bumpy ride that keeps you concentrating , and when we eventually come off it , there is a lone tree that the dogs pull towards despite our efforts . |
| 14 | Ruth heard Mrs Peterson 's voice from a long way off . |
| 15 | Sara heard Matthew 's voice from a long way off . |
| 16 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 17 | EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada . |
| 18 | Well , until sixty-five , and that 's a hell of a long way away . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've come a hell of a long way , you know . |
| 20 | One hell of a long way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's also a hell of a long way away , ’ Ace replied . |
| 22 | It 's a hell of a long way . |
| 23 | No , it 's a hell of a long way |
| 24 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |
| 25 | If Seve Ballesteros had looked a winner all along in 1979 , and certainly looked likely to lift the claret jug from a long way out , Dave 's second Open success was not so cut-and-dried . |
| 26 | I will say that because as , we have n't heard the end by a long way for , of this one . |
| 27 | I suppose Nirvana are the best of a bad lot by a long way . |
| 28 | ‘ In my job , old boy , I 've learned that truth is stranger than fiction by a long way . ’ |
| 29 | In the home market , it led the field by a long way , with 4,337,487 units sold ; Pan came next , with 2,181,514 . |
| 30 | It is possible to see the weather from a long way off , but as the people at Old Slains know , the weather then arrives at such speed over the surface of the North Sea that seeing it approach seems hardly sufficient warning . |