Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain most children have already undergone a long period of conservative management at the hands of their general practitioners , often with trials of non-operative intervention using long term antibiotics . |
| 2 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 3 | Sheffield was a very different type of town , but like most other places that developed into great Victorian cities it had already had a long history as a market and craft centre . |
| 4 | Either way , the outcome is a marked legacy in the economic landscape , representing today the ‘ continuing influence of Britain 's historical international position ’ ( Massey , 1986 ) : by the time of the 1930s depression , some of the greatest industrial regions of Britain , the specialist production regions of textiles , steel , ships and coal exports , with their ports , had already entered a long period of continuous decline . |
| 5 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 6 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 7 | Mum always made a long list of groceries she needed but some days she bought even more things because there was so much to choose from . |
| 8 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 9 | She had always taken a long time over her toilet : a review of her clothes ; a long-drawn-out bath ; massage ; manicure ; then her hair and make-up . |
| 10 | Deaf schools in Britain have traditionally had a long involvement in the Scout and Girl Guide movement , but Scouting has not been confined simply to schoolboys and schoolgirls . |
| 11 | Few people are aware that he also pioneered a long line of excursion steamers on the Forth starting in 1813 . |
| 12 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 13 | In spite of her angry and tearful protests Charles insisted on giving the token to the woman who had haunted their courtship and has since cast a long shadow across their married life . |
| 14 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 15 | The Signature 's pickup is rather oddly placed a long way from the end of the neck ( obviously by request ) while the JD 's is in the normal position . |
| 16 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 18 | He 's certainly had a long talk with me since you left the team — ’ |
| 19 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |