Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clough has waited a long time for a decent run to establish himself after more than two years as squad makeweight . |
| 2 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 3 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 4 | ‘ Chopper an' Frankie 's got a long walk 'ome , ’ Tony said . |
| 5 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 6 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 7 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 8 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 9 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 10 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 11 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 12 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 13 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 14 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 15 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 16 | Lewis plans to take a long break — in Britain — after first heading to Las Vegas to commentate for Sky TV on the November 13 title battle between reigning champion Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe that will decide his opponent next April . |
| 17 | As we pointed out earlier , the kind of model for insider evaluation that Shipman proposes has a long history and there is little evidence that it has been significantly displaced by newer alternatives . |
| 18 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 19 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 20 | And I think Claire 's had a long day . |
| 21 | Chris Fry goes chasing a long ball … |
| 22 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 23 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |