Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success .
2 The 17.5 per cent stake represents roughly a quarter of Anglia 's market capitalisation , but David McCall , chief executive , said he believed ‘ the share price has a long way to go yet ’ .
3 Those local authorities that are investing in the necessary shredders and mechanical mixers are finding that the savings of landfill charges go a long way towards paying for the environmental gain .
4 Friedman 's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory .
5 If your direction of approach is over 60° to the outbound track turn the longer way round , with adjustment for wind .
6 Nothing much between the two teams on form … they 're two places and eight points apart … both are in the frame for the play-off places but the promotion race has a long way to go yet …
7 Anyone who heard the late-night television jokes after Mr Clinton 's meeting with Sharon Stone knows that a little bit of this year 's sex goddess goes a long way .
8 The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell .
9 That was attached to for the July Course the Jockey Club runs a long way right near round on to the Swaffham Road , yeah see runs right up , right up to the Swaffham Road , you see .
10 If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance .
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