Example sentences of "long way from " in BNC.

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1 The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated .
2 The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available .
3 The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor .
4 VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol .
5 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 .
6 The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built .
7 ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper !
8 The North Riding is a long way from London .
9 Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared .
10 The town of Isafjördur is on the far side of the fjord , a long way from the town , and reached by a bus ride past the first fish-drying frame you will see in this part of the island .
11 ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
12 Charles was taking the job a long way from the safe arena of charitable patronage and ribbon-cutting and into politically dangerous areas , where constitutionally , he ought not to be .
13 She went to drama school on a scholarship in the Isle of Wight — a long way from her home in Ayr .
14 CANBERRA may seem an awful long way from exchanges on the floor of the House of Commons over the European Monetary System .
15 MOTHERWELL Civic Hall is a long way from Las Vegas , but when Gary Jacobs defends his Commonwealth welterweight title there tonight against Donovan Boucher , the Canadian champion , he will be aiming to take the international spotlight from old stagers like Lloyd Honeyghan and Kirkland Laing .
16 Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics .
17 Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf .
18 It is a long way from that to his limp affirmation of the central tenets of Islam .
19 Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s .
20 Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals .
21 American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states .
22 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 .
23 We had certainly made some fully justified savings in Housing Benefit but these were a very long way from the £2 billion ambitions of the Treasury .
24 Long way from home , ai n't they ? ’
25 The RENFE train station must be a long way from the centre , I thought , just as we began to enter the acid neon groves of the darkening city , through a narrow glade of brightly lit shops , the Corrielo , then through a vast archway — a policeman 's shrill whistle — and the bus was rolling and swinging right into the grand Plaza Mayor , which it circled slowly , triumphantly hooting .
26 ‘ You can see a long way from up here , ’ said Simon .
27 Not a long way from Kirsty .
28 Such expectations seem a long , long way from what Kael regards as cinema 's golden era , the emergence in the late Sixties/early Seventies of stellar talents like Scorsese , Coppola , Altman and Bertolucci .
29 A long way from here the amiable and taggled sheep are still curling together in the roadside bus shelter and the wind still moves through the unclad trees .
30 Finally I arrived at Ballinasloe , to find the station a long way from the town .
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