Example sentences of "were a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara ignored them as the boat chugged out to sea ; soon the harbour and the cliffs were a long way away . |
| 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 | They were a long way out of Thirkett now . |
| 5 | We all carried a key but the boxes were a long way apart . |
| 6 | Note the defence shown at point 2 above , when the offender has no reason to believe anyone was within hearing or seeing distances who was likely to be caused harassment , alarm or distress , e.g. if some people could see him , but they were a long way off . |
| 7 | ‘ That last one were a long time before your time , Tom . |
| 8 | South Africa , particularly in the Australian test , were a long way off the pace . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This political framework filled a continent whose physical characteristics were a long and indented coast , few very high mountains , moderate rainfall and temperature and much fertile land . |
| 11 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But they were a long way ahead now , and his mother would never guess what he was up to . |
| 14 | In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil . |
| 15 | ‘ You were a long time coming to bed . ’ |
| 16 | I knew all these stars were a long , long way away but they did n't look far away . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 18 | Regardless of subject labels , children 's curriculum experiences tended to be dominated by writing , with reading , using task-specific apparatus , and listening to the teacher also prominent ; collaborative activity and talking — with the teacher or with other pupils — were a long way behind . |
| 19 | Our crafts were a long way from collision … ’ |
| 20 | Now er clay pipes , we used to dredge up and they got dredged up down opposite Pinmill , and they were a long pipe , but cos the , the stem a lot of them had been broken off and wh how they got down there nobody know , I think they used to be like in ballast with the ships , I think . |
| 21 | as if her sauntering were a long stillness . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , the buses were a long way from normal . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Marcus sat carefully on the bunk , feeling that the walls were a long way away and that he was very small . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Swindon 's glory days in the FA Cup were a long time ago while Cambridge have been to the quarter finals two years running . |
| 27 | Oh we had whistles , and strangely enough , very seldom did we use them , simply because there were other traffic about that time if you were a long way away , er you might be nearly to , if you blew your whistle , there were nobody to hear you , I mean people in houses , and they were only few and far between . |
| 28 | and erm it were a long play and it were hundred and twenty nine pound video . |
| 29 | There were a long way from . |
| 30 | So when we say we want the laws of physics perhaps to stay constant in time , when we observe these objects a long way away we 're observing the laws of physics as they were a long time ago . |