Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [modal v] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | That change will take a long time , and be accompanied by increasing turbulence . |
| 2 | But genes can act at a distance ; extended phenotypes can extend a long way . |
| 3 | While you 're in hospital , a guaranteed additional daily income will go a long way to ensuring that you do n't come out of hospital with financial worries . |
| 4 | This election could go a long way to sorting that out . |
| 5 | Since very small , light animals can fall a long way without being hurt , it 's quite likely that it survived in the forest world under the tree and had the second most interesting experience any tree frog has ever had . |
| 6 | Our exclusive interview with Steffi elsewhere in this issue should go a long way to satisfying the demands of her fans , many of whom continue to demand more and more information about their favourite player . |
| 7 | The erm difference in cer some things can seem a long time ago and some are relatively recent . |
| 8 | In the meantime this recording should go a long way to helping his cause . |
| 9 | Be warned though : commercial music can take a long time to clear and can also be expensive . |
| 10 | ‘ This hostel would go a long way towards that . |
| 11 | Relationships once broken in this way may take a long time to heal . |
| 12 | That is when we realised that the materialistic gap between the rich and poor was indeed nothing compared to the wide gulf in understanding , and that the understanding of health problems in this country would take a long painstaking process of re-accumulating the evidence . |
| 13 | Perhaps one day some brave soul will make a long legal journey to the House of Lords and persuade them to change their minds . |
| 14 | ‘ That girl will go a long way — ’ |
| 15 | The second alternative would take a long time to achieve . |
| 16 | Organising a fair distribution of tickets by perhaps initially limiting the number allocated to each family or , alternatively , putting on an extra performance will go a long way to solving the problem . |
| 17 | The young kilted boys and tartan-dressed girls used to run a long distance on the canal bank in healthful rivalry , and were oftentimes rewarded by having money thrown to them . |
| 18 | You will find a tiny amount will go a long way . |
| 19 | The morphological system can require a long time to obtain the syntactic information for a word . |
| 20 | A new dinghy class with an official imprimatur can expect a long and lucrative life . |
| 21 | A little espionage would go a long way — that sort of thing . |
| 22 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 23 | Like a wound in your own flesh , a clean cut heals quickly , but a jagged , ragged , bruised gash can take a long time to heel and is open to infection all that time . |
| 24 | Lukanov presented to the National Assembly on March 29 , 1990 , a package of crisis management measures and first steps towards a market economy , to last until a new government formed after the forthcoming multiparty elections could produce a long term economic strategy . |
| 25 | It was the only time I felt slightly frightened and that was mainly because I 'd heard that a posterior labour could last a long time — even 24 hours . |
| 26 | Little Renaissance furniture survives intact , and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding . |
| 27 | A good footnote can go a long way . |
| 28 | Good stakes can last a long time , but it does help if they are cut some months before they are used , and well seasoned . |
| 29 | However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review . |
| 30 | Aristocratic rivalries might go a long way to explain the ineffectiveness of English armies , as one of the chronicler 's few detailed descriptions of internal affairs indicates . |