Example sentences of "long way to go before [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 2 | ‘ But I rather think my modest , high-minded , fastidious , idealistic wife has a long way to go before she qualifies for that description . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a long way to go before it sounds natural . ’ |
| 4 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
| 5 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |