Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proteins have little sequence identity and obviously diverged a long time ago . |
| 2 | This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again . |
| 3 | This is a real advantage when using the A2 live and also goes a long way to keeping the engineer happy in the studio , without taking precious minutes to reprogram . |
| 4 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 5 | One Frenchman had taken his carbine from his holster and now tried a long shot at Sharpe , but the bullet fluttered harmlessly overhead . |
| 6 | He was re-elected to parliament in 1978 , and then survived a long struggle against cancer . |
| 7 | The road continues south , climbing over a rise with a good retrospective view of the full length of Kingsdale and then makes a long descent to Thornton in Lonsdale after a branch turns off to the right for the A65 at Westhouse . |
| 8 | Continued help in learning Spanish — I can now communicate , but still have a long way to go in fully understanding what people are saying to me |
| 9 | They saw the boom falling , but still have a long way to go to fill the hole that the decline of the mainframe is about to open up . |
| 10 | Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests . |
| 11 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 12 | Visit to Australia cos we might as well have a long cruise . |