Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 4 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |