Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] [vb base] a long " in BNC.

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1 Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across .
2 We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims .
3 I do n't know it may be that I 'll be the only member er that talks in terms of a specific Euro seat er in any detail but it does matter in our area and we have a long history of arguing that case .
4 Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak .
5 Consequently 21 per cent of the population of Great Britain report that they have a long standing limiting illness ( 19 per cent of males and 22 per cent of females ) .
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