Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Mr Lamont has a long way to go before he can recover the confidence of Scottish business leaders . |
| 3 | And though , once she hit her formidable histrionic stride , it was possible to feel that a little of Bette Davis went a long way , her excesses were surely preferable to the homogenised blandness of those mass-produced Hollywood sirens of whom a lot went a very little way indeed . |
| 4 | The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ . |
| 5 | Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain . |
| 6 | Friedman 's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory . |
| 7 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 8 | Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet … |
| 9 | Anyone who heard the late-night television jokes after Mr Clinton 's meeting with Sharon Stone knows that a little bit of this year 's sex goddess goes a long way . |
| 10 | Stephen saw the police cars coming a long way off , three of them in a convoy coming up the white road from Hilderbridge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | THE picture above shows the ideal set-up for the modern work station , and the new EC regulations go a long way to achieving this . |
| 13 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 14 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 15 | That was attached to for the July Course the Jockey Club runs a long way right near round on to the Swaffham Road , yeah see runs right up , right up to the Swaffham Road , you see . |
| 16 | DAMON Hill went a long way towards fulfilling the hopes of his family and army of fans when he grabbed provisional pole position for Sunday 's Monaco Grand Prix . |
| 17 | Mister Grant has a long way to go before he will fully recover from his injuries . |