Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a very long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 2 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 3 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 4 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
| 5 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 7 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |