Example sentences of "they [be] [adv] a long way " in BNC.

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1 Many thousands of earthquakes can be recorded along the ridges in any one year and a few of these are quite severe , but since they are generally a long way from anywhere , they do n't hit the headlines .
2 In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity .
3 They are actually a long way behind the rest of Europe .
4 IPSWICH Town may have had their minds on Saturday 's sixth round FA Cup tie against Arsenal because they were certainly a long way below their best against struggling Middlesbrough at Portman Road last night .
5 Whoever the child-murdering Mingrelians might be they were certainly a long way away .
6 They were usually a long way from the London merchants who set up as gentry , but this group represented nonetheless a significant local urban aristocracy .
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