Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a long way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 9 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |