Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] a [adv] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 2 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 3 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
| 4 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |