Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adv] long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 2 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 3 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 4 | In comparison with the inhibition effect , however , this facilitation only occurred when the subject was given a relatively long time to read the context . |
| 5 | The record 's gone through a lot of transformations and taken a hellaciously long time to get done . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It ca n't be denied that all this has taken a very long time to come about , but I think that , political wrangling aside , much of the delay has been due to genuine uncertainty about the tax implications of moving money around from one body to another . |