Example sentences of "be a long [noun sg] behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seagram , last year 's winner , has been a long way behind that excellence this season , as has Bonanza Boy , the 1991 favourite , whose desertion by Peter Scudamore was clearly influenced by the drying conditions . |
| 2 | Mind you the van 's a long way behind him anyway |
| 3 | Yeah but it 's a long story behind that . |
| 4 | ( This , of course , is partly because the level of technology applied to housework is a long way behind that in industry . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So the hound was a long way behind him when he began to run . |