Example sentences of "[conj] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 Although a long way off the summit , it is still higher than the tallest mountain in Europe .
2 A LONG time ago and a long way away , a factory dumped sludge containing organic mercury into the sea .
3 Below the Ship and a long way off , something tiny and white skimmed over the clouds .
4 The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony .
5 Naturally , I 'm at that mysterious , precarious stage somewhere close to and a long way from that miraculous first sentence .
6 Frenchay is quiet — and a long way from Bath Road .
7 The mound was no mound at all , but actually a deer ; a very dead deer , and a long way from fresh .
8 You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ?
9 It is a long way from the " careership " proposals of the CBI and a long way , too , from the systematic manner in which those parties argue who would wish to see TECs as the regulators of training and as the godfather of the careers service .
10 And a long way after that they think about children .
11 Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all .
12 His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead .
13 Last year 3,284 were killed or seriously injured , which is down on the figure of 4,302 in 1981 , but a long way from the Department of Transport 's aim of cutting it to below 3,000 .
14 Apart from cases such as those we have been discussing , where the industries are nearly perfectly contestable , there are other , more traditional cases where the industry is a natural monopoly but a long way from being naturally contestable .
15 It was small , or perhaps it was very big but a long way off .
16 I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else .
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