Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times . |
| 2 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 3 | He called in his full executive to meet us and I 'm sure at the end of the day that this meeting went a long way to the tour going ahead instead of being cancelled ’ . |
| 4 | follow the pattern , but there again this stuff goes a long way |
| 5 | It might be early days but this approach falls a long way short of forging a relationship with the viewer and when he turned to the big screen to ask a reporter a single question , it came across as completely contrived . |
| 6 | The same research also shows , however , that the ‘ class ’ basis of support for the parties is now weakening significantly , and that even at its peak this phenomenon fell a long way short of the Marxist conception of political ‘ class consciousness ’ . |