Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a very long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere .
2 Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’
3 He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat !
4 She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent .
5 They had gone a very long way into the tunnel .
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