Example sentences of "it was a [adj] way from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 2 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 3 | It was a long way from Brewer Street . |
| 4 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 5 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |
| 6 | It was a long way from New York , let alone the West Coast , Beatles , Stones , and all . |
| 7 | It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment . |
| 8 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 9 | You could keep them a as long as it was a reasonable way from the street as you might say and , and were fortunate because our pigstys had been built years before and they were ooh , suitably fifty to sixty yards from the main road you see , but I used to laugh at that when we , when we were having these pigs killed . |