Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll wait a very long time to do that , ’ he gritted . |
| 3 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 4 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 5 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 6 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 7 | This can be contrasted with the centesimal scale where we may have to wait a fairly long time to ascertain the action of the remedy . |
| 8 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 9 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 10 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 11 | Er , what companies can do , or should seek to do , is of course , see if they can manage round those tensions as well , but it takes a very long time to do that . |
| 12 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |
| 13 | But it 's expensive , useless as an insulator when wet and takes a very long time to dry . |
| 14 | The display on consumption utilises the age-old trick of piling up an adult 's average monthly intake of food ( enormous amounts of chocolate ) and invites the visitor to burn off excess calories on an ‘ Energy Bike ’ ( it does , of course , take a depressingly long time to nullify the effect of just one grape ) . |
| 15 | This may mean that a file which operates well under normal conditions , i.e. many home records being accessed but few synonyms , may take a relatively long time to process sequentially . |
| 16 | It would take a very long time to implement and would be very costly . |
| 17 | Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind . |
| 18 | The effects of hormones may themselves take a very long time to appear . |
| 19 | New trees are being planted but it will take a very long time to repair the damage . |
| 20 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 21 | The move towards economic sanctions is necessary , unfortunately , but sanctions will take a very long time to work . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He took a terribly long time to clean his hands . |
| 24 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 25 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've a very long way to go . ’ |
| 28 | The problem is that the majority of vets are men and cats often take a very long time to forget the helpful attentions they receive at their local animal clinics . |
| 29 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |
| 30 | I think we still have a very long way to go erm but |