Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] a long [noun] " 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 ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly .
4 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 .
5 It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’
6 " He should have done so a long time ago .
7 ‘ We should have got together a long time ago , when I was n't an old man . ’
8 And er then it seems to keep quite a long time if er if you do that .
9 This is where some fault or other has manifested itself sufficiently to affect the flight , though the critical event might have happened quite a long time before and been ‘ cooking up ’ until the divergence took place .
10 In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops .
11 ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’
12 Sorry to have taken rather a long time to reply but Andrew was in transit back to and around Italy .
13 Mother Bernie had said so a long time ago and all Preston 's life 's experiences since then had born it out .
14 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 .
15 erm on the next er , item er we have er on item ten we 've got the welfare rights and er advice and we 've got quite a long report which I hope you 'll agree is an excellent report , er and er Sue is here to present it .
16 Now , we 've got quite a long list , colleagues , of , er , members of the European Parliament and members of Parliament who will be with us during the course of the week for for short stays er Euro European MPs first , er Linden , Cheshire West secretary of the European P L P Steven , Durham , deputy leader of the European P L P Hugh , Strathclyde West Barry , Yorkshire West and from the G M B parliamentary group , er , these MPs may only be present for short periods Nicholas , Newcastle-upon-Tyne East Doug , Newcastle-upon-Tyne North Gerald , George , Hamilton Clive Hammersmith and Giles who 's drawn the short straw , who 's going to give us an address this morning .
17 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
18 We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time .
19 They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place
20 Except , Gedanken noticed , those who had to travel quite a long way .
21 I 've read somewhere a long while ago , there was some sort of warning and I ca n't remember the details you know .
22 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 .
23 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
24 THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit .
25 He 's got quite a long body which is what
26 ‘ We have to give those who have lived here a long time the right to become German citizens , ’ Johannes Gerster , deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary group , said at the weekend .
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