Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a long way " in BNC.
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1 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |
2 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
3 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
4 | You 've got to start back a long way before you get to the final decisions on costs and budgets . |
5 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
6 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
7 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
8 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
9 | Except , Gedanken noticed , those who had to travel quite a long way . |
10 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
11 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
12 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |