Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [verb] a long " in BNC.

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1 You money has always gone a long way in Thailand .
2 MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week .
3 Crying , his duet with K D Lang , stormed to No 12 while I Drove All Night has just enjoyed a long Top 10 run .
4 Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls .
5 In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics .
6 Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships .
7 The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ .
8 The original bothy had now become a long low front room , with settees and coffee tables , and the beds had been put in the annexe .
9 What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been .
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