Example sentences of "[adv] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If their complexion was their most celebrated feature , then perhaps a long necklace of perfect pearls . |
| 2 | An account of the decline of partisan and religious strife , by contrast , would take us past the Hanoverian Succession — indeed , perhaps a long way past it . |
| 3 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 4 | When it came , what a bore — no beer , no fancy cheroots , just a long discussion about the validity of putting Sham 69 on the cover . |
| 5 | it 's just a long drive over there |
| 6 | And be especially careful with formulations of the kind illustrated in the examples below ; do not be misled by a direct interrogative — the answer is never just a long version of " yes " or " no " : |
| 7 | Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines . |
| 8 | There is already a long list of great British industries — from shipbuilding to motorcycles — which have slid into terminal decline . |
| 9 | They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy . |
| 10 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |
| 11 | Gradually a long lie on a Saturday comes to mean rising at 5 p.m. in time for the Brookside omnibus , your rucksack quietly grows grey mouldy bits at the back of a dark cupboard , and The Face seems more interesting than Tom Weir 's ‘ My Month ’ . |
| 12 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |
| 13 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 14 | However , a policy which takes full account of women 's needs is still a long way off ( Cockburn , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | Soccer it 's claimed is still a long way off finding a cure for violence . |
| 16 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 17 | Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s . |
| 18 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 19 | Dustin Hoffman , Robert Redford , Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro were still a long way from making even their first films . |
| 20 | Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon . |
| 21 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
| 22 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 23 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 24 | In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity . |
| 25 | The current South African team is still a long way from emulating the 1960s side which could well have claimed World Championship status if they had been able to test their strength against Garry Sobers ' West Indies . |
| 26 | He ran towards him as soon as he came in sight , and he was still a long way from home when the father first spotted him ( Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 27 | Even so , Basque autonomy was still a long way from being achieved when , during 1933 , the left 's grip on power started to loosen . |
| 28 | Yet , despite its prominence in headhunting in the USA and its global dominance as the highest-earning executive search firm in the world , Korn/Ferry is still a long way from being number one in fee income in Britain . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're still a long way from Herr Goodenache . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The evidence shows that while it is swinging slowly , it 's still a long way from the centre and it 's certainly not swinging the other way . ’ |