Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way .
2 ‘ He stated it had all started a very long time ago when he was serving in the army in India and he admitted to still being sexually frustrated . ’
3 As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby .
4 ‘ Yet in the long run — and we have already had a pretty long run — the results are potentially devastating . ’
5 The process of separatism growing into a global force would thus take a very long time .
6 Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go .
7 That 's still got an awful long way to go .
8 ‘ I suppose you could always take a very long way round . ’
9 I think we still have a very long way to go erm but
10 → When you think of Fender 's seeming unwillingness to bring the reissues of the Indie-cred Jaguar into this country , Jim , I think we 'll probably wait a very long time before a Bass VI emanates from anywhere other than the Fender Custom Shop — a facility available to the wad-carrying fanatic .
11 It also has an extremely long shelf-life and loses none of its potency even when turning from its original pale straw colour to the colour of strong tea after a year or more .
12 Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away .
13 The problem is that the majority of vets are men and cats often take a very long time to forget the helpful attentions they receive at their local animal clinics .
14 Such horses often have a very long coat of hair , a ‘ malnutrition coat ’ , which the horse grows against cold , as it does not have the normal layer of fat under its skin to protect it .
15 Young Mr Woodroofe , you read it here first , will eventually go a very long way indeed .
16 Thank you Chairman erm this is , this is er er obviously er a very important item , but I think that most of the information that it contains would already be familiar to members erm and bearing in mind that I , I 've only a moment or two ago gave a very long answer to Mr 's question when I , I could simply have said yes .
17 He said he would probably stay on for about two years after the tunnel opens for passenger traffic , probably next summer , and would then take a very long holiday .
18 Alas for him , the speech proposing the loyal toast can sometimes take a very long time .
19 Mark paused again to take a very long drink .
20 Companies which find it more difficult because it 's the centre of their existence , erm , are clearly looking at the situation , but will actually take a very long time to move to the position which you , in your particular group would like them to occupy , and I understand that , changing in I C I is rather different from changing at I B M , and er , therefore it takes longer , but I do see a a consciousness , it 's the same conscious , you 're impatient for change , quite rightly , companies of course , have to keep their employees in an earning capacity , at the same time , er , move towards the position which you would like to them to do , and it may take a long time , but I accept your point , which is with some companies , then in fact , your clearly going to get attention of some kind .
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