Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 2 | Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go . |
| 3 | ‘ We have somewhere between £22,000 and £23,000 in the bank and there is cash still to come in , but we have a long way to go . ’ |
| 4 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 6 | But they have a long way to recover . |
| 7 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 8 | But he has a long way to go to close down Sir Teddy 's 15,000 majority . |