Example sentences of "already [vb pp] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 2 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 3 | He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it . |
| 4 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 5 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 8 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |