Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
2 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
3 ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’
4 " He should have done so a long time ago .
5 Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out .
6 And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances .
7 However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead .
8 What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase .
9 ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’
10 erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it .
11 He 's got quite a long body which is what
12 Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning .
13 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
14 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
15 By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice .
16 But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way .
17 And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way .
18 Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy .
19 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
20 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
21 This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place .
22 The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this .
23 ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend .
24 I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know .
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