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Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a long way " in BNC.

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1	Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off .
2	Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away .
3	These facts go a long way towards explaining why the bream is not generally recognised as a hard-fighting fish .
4	The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents .
5	Many children live a long way from their grandparents , so relationships with non-related older people need to be encouraged .
6	Many folks go a long way up the Bulger to fix a high runner and top-rope the move , but this is a bit naughty , and it wo n't help you on the upper slab .
7	The street was empty and silent and small sounds carried a long way .
8	The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change .
9	‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’
10	The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away .
11	These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide .
12	A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them .
13	They 're added to marzipan to improve its flavour and keeping qualities , and a little oil of bitter almonds goes a long way in much confectionery .