Example sentences of "we be a long [noun] from " in BNC.

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1 We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ?
2 We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam .
3 We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document .
4 And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals .
5 Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology .
6 We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) .
7 ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here .
8 We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’
9 But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er
10 We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran .
11 But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home .
12 We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff .
13 ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here .
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