Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 2 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 3 | But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 6 | In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue . |
| 7 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 8 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 9 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 10 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 11 | It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go . |
| 12 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 13 | But my grandparents had worked at Drogo since it was built , so we 've had a long link with the Drewes ; the family put in a word for me so I got the job . |
| 14 | I mean I 'll be upset about our Whisky , 'cos we 're , I mean , we 've had a long time , although she 's not a pet pet , you know what I mean . |
| 15 | If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye . |
| 16 | Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’ |
| 17 | We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 . |
| 18 | We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address . |
| 19 | Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base . |
| 20 | What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading . |
| 21 | Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ? |
| 22 | ‘ We have waited a long time to have car tax taken off , but VAT is still 17.5 per cent , ’ he says . |
| 23 | We have got a long road ahead but he will get fit because he is so determined . ’ |
| 24 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ We have had a long period of success under a lot of good coaches and we are confident John can do a great job for us . ’ |
| 25 | I just want to briefly introduce this , I do n't want to speak in any great , we have had a long debate in house do you if you wish to engage in a long debate again in view of the time tonight . |
| 26 | We have come a long way . |
| 27 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 28 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 29 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 30 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |