Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb base] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off . |
| 2 | Dried pastas have a shelf-life in excess of a year and frozen pastas also have a long shelf-life under proper conditions . |
| 3 | The Andes also have a long history of human occupation which has transformed the landscape . |
| 4 | But the low priority still given to gender , and the position of women in the foothills of the profession , ( see BSA , 1986 ) together with increased competition for the limited funding available for sociological research in the present political climate , suggest that feminists still face a long struggle to put women 's issues onto sociology 's mainstream agenda . |
| 5 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 6 | Others still have a long way to go and a lot to learn about their disabilities . |
| 7 | Florida will suffer because it is a centre of the fertiliser industry ; Pennsylvania , because it has a concentration of steel and cement works ; Kansas , because farmers use a lot of fuel ; California , because its residents habitually drive a long way to work . |
| 8 | The Orkneys and Shetland also have a long history of independence in local government terms and pride themselves on their Scandinavian roots and their distinctiveness from Scotland . |