Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 2 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 3 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 5 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 6 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 7 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |