Example sentences of "[art] [adv] long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I flung my arms round her and we walked the very long way to the terminal in the pouring rain and it did n't matter at all . ’ |
| 2 | For a moment I toyed with the idea of getting back to the ship , lifting off and going a comfortingly long way away . |
| 3 | That 's about thirty miles each way — a terribly long way to come , particularly as he would have to cross London . ’ |
| 4 | A dizzyingly long way below lay a long , deep arc of white-powder sand . |
| 5 | It was a horribly long way from the ground . |
| 6 | ‘ It wo n't matter if there are 100 horses in front of us , ’ he said — and launched Nijinsky 's challenge from a perilously long way back . |
| 7 | The drink theme too , broadly understood , goes back a very long way . |
| 8 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 9 | We had certainly made some fully justified savings in Housing Benefit but these were a very long way from the £2 billion ambitions of the Treasury . |
| 10 | ‘ Modern economics , as well as the geography of the whole of Ireland means that ultimately — and ultimately can be a very long way away — our Labour Party policy on reunification is the one that will be endorsed . |
| 11 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 12 | Under the present director , Geoffrey Morgan , a soft-spoken Welshman whose main outside interest is silkworms , the list of names has moved away from the Reform Club and further out into Middle England , although it is still a very long way short of representing a cross-section of the population . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
| 14 | It is all a very long way from the days of the preposterous proposition , when the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics forbade its members to accept jobs in the pharmaceutical industry ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 15 | What river engineers have begun to do is to rediscover their roots , and these , as we shall see , go back a very long way . |
| 16 | Essential oils are not always cheap , especially rose and neroli , but because they are highly concentrated , in use a little goes a very long way . |
| 17 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 18 | Now that it was over Edward seemed to have gone a very long way away from her , as if she was no more than a stranger to whom he was giving a lift . |
| 19 | Such views to a very long way , especially when expressed in a credible magazine such as yours , in reinforcing subtle destructive prejudices against ethnic minorities in this country . |
| 20 | This combination of a strictly limited set of measures , and their application only to new housing , goes a very long way to explaining why public ignorance of these matters is so widespread in Britain . |
| 21 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 22 | Rudston 's history goes back a very long way to Neolithic times and it is believed to be the oldest inhabited village in England . |
| 23 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 24 | Leasing obviously still has its dedicated followers , but like many other sectors the boom years of the mid-1980s now look a very long way away . |
| 25 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 26 | It was a lot bigger now and yet , and yet … still a very long way off . |
| 27 | We had both come a very long way . |
| 28 | Further difficulties arise because it is by no means clear what objects the signs are intended to represent , but even if it were , decipherment would still be a very long way off . |
| 29 | Left to their own devices , most roses tend to develop new growth into which they direct their sap and energy , bear bloom , and which then — as it becomes old and tired — gradually either becomes starved , by-passed , neglected and finally aborted as the plant constantly turns its attention to new growth , or it develops a barky exterior layer as it settles down to becoming no more than a main road communicating between the raw material goods received from the warehouse in the soil and the production factory upstairs — quite often , a very long way upstairs . |
| 30 | This is well over half a magnitude fainter than Sirius , but appearances are deceptive ; Canopus is a highly luminous star , a very long way away . |