Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] in [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Pennsylvania primary , Lynn Yeakel , a 50-year-old Democrat with a long experience in working for battered women , job training , abortion counselling and family health care , scored a big upset victory after running ads on TV showing excerpts from the Hill hearings . |
| 2 | Gaselee , 53 , has a long history in racing in several capacities . |
| 3 | However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on , and he was dead when eventually picked up ; Waghorn was also killed . |
| 4 | But Customs officials at the Channel port said last night that they would be ‘ very surprised ’ if a long delay in clearing the consignment was because of suspicion of drug smuggling . |
| 5 | Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor . |
| 6 | He has already pushed the boat out a long way in distancing Sinn Féin from the IRA , yet to no electoral avail . |
| 7 | De Klerk dismissed suggestions that he ca n't control his security forces by pointing out that he appointed 10,000 police officers last year , and claims that the new influx will go a long way in helping subdue township unrest . |
| 8 | ‘ This afternoon 's coverage should go a long way in helping you set up your own firm , ’ he said , wiping his hands on a serviette . |
| 9 | The work of the Quality Assurance Unit will go a long way in restoring public confidence in the education system . |
| 10 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 11 | In addition to the occasional attendance at rehearsals by the incumbent , positive words of appreciation can go a long way in making the musician feel that the job is worthwhile . |
| 12 | As one would expect , incomers took a greater interest in discussing class — class is supposed to go a long way in explaining the membership of given social networks , and in the scope of such networks . |
| 13 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
| 14 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 15 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 16 | Their staff were generally willing to ‘ have a go ’ , and with some information and support went a long way in challenging their own attitudes and those of other children and parents . |
| 17 | The Commission on Analytical Nomenclature of IUPAC has been active for a long time in establishing nomenclature for chromatography . |
| 18 | Florence Ames was quieter about it , as though she had the measure of things because she had spent a long time in looking at them . |
| 19 | Well that 's no surprise ; but it 's been a long time in coming . |
| 20 | It seemed to Lefevre that the splash took a long time in coming . |
| 21 | In the era of austerity , consolidating the welfare state had required strong political backing , something that was a long time in coming until depression and war eventually mobilised these forces . |
| 22 | ‘ The pace of life is slow there — things take a long time in changing . |