Example sentences of "[was/were] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Africa , particularly in the Australian test , were a long way off the pace . |
| 2 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 3 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 4 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 5 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 7 | Our crafts were a long way from collision … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You know , the buses were a long way from normal . |
| 9 | Acton and Shepherd 's Bush , he said , were a long way from Islington but it had not needed the history and memory of Risinghill and William Tyndale to make headteachers alert to the damaging way in which matters of discipline , race , criminality and parental disquiet could be brought together into presentations of hot and not always accurate news . |
| 10 | There were a long way from . |
| 11 | These whirlwind developments were a long time in the planning but the results came with staggering speed and remarkable good nature and co-operation which finally sees the rugby world totally united once again but with a new combined force lurking below the equator . |
| 12 | If a week is a long time in politics , two days were a long time in the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's life last week . |
| 13 | ‘ That last one were a long time before your time , Tom . |
| 14 | It was a long way down this road , I was right . |
| 15 | It was a long way to Cornwall . |
| 16 | They will have experienced distance ( ‘ It was a long way to the seaside ’ ) ; time ( ‘ Please can I stay up longer ? ) ; quantity ( ‘ Can I have some more sweets ? ) ; capacity ( ‘ My glass is empty ’ ) and comparison ( ‘ I 'm taller than John ’ ) . |
| 17 | It was a long way to sunset , but the air in the tower seemed to be getting colder by the moment . |
| 18 | It was a long way to Hackballs Cross , and she hated herself for going , spat hatred at herself as she threw the Metro southwards . |
| 19 | Druid 's Bottom was a long way below them : a doll 's house with tall chimneys , tucked in a fold of the valley as if in the crook of an elbow . |
| 20 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 21 | But Cook was a long way off selection when the South Africans picked their side for the World Cup and the subsequent mini-tour of the West Indies , which featured the Republic 's only other Test since the dismantling of apartheid . |
| 22 | He was a long way off the ground when she released him and he plummeted to earth and hit the floor and bounced like a football . |
| 23 | In fact I thought the whole fairy-palace effect was a long way over the top and painfully unoriginal . |
| 24 | Defries , with Benny just behind her , was a long way in the other direction . |
| 25 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 26 | So the hound was a long way behind him when he began to run . |
| 27 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 28 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 29 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 30 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |