Example sentences of "[adv] seem a long way [adv] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off .
2 But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off .
3 At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off .
4 Thankfully that day still seems a long way off .
5 Nevertheless , the report went on , " agreement still seems a long way off " .
6 Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond .
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