Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good selection procedures and thorough briefing sessions go a long way towards making an overseas assignment a success . |
| 2 | Whichever you choose , you may believe you are responding to current fashion trends , but , in fact , both styles boast a long ancestry . |
| 3 | The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean . |
| 4 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 5 | Swindon Town and Oxford United fans have a long tradition of rivalry . |
| 6 | The wooded area is nice enough but the schools have a long history of desegregation problems , and are now 88% black and 10% Hispanic . |
| 7 | The fragments have a long and complex history since their discovery , dating back to at least the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | But kids have a long tradition of getting the better of adults , going back to the Famous Five and beyond . |
| 9 | The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change . |
| 10 | In Britain the divisions between the public health , general practice and hospital sectors have a long history of often quite bitter dispute . |
| 11 | These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide . |
| 12 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 13 | The remote rural areas have a long history of continuing depopulation : there are problems of farm structure and current argument about land use in general raises important issues of concern for the future . |
| 14 | So our gardens represent a long steady stream of introductions with occasional ‘ eruptions ’ as new and botanically rich areas of the world opened to the West . |
| 15 | For example , many Northern English accents have a long sound as the realisation of the phoneme symbolised in RP ( which is a simple phonetic difference ) ; but in some Northern accents there is an diphthong phoneme and a contrasting long vowel phoneme that could be symbolised . |
| 16 | Such expectations seem a long , long way from what Kael regards as cinema 's golden era , the emergence in the late Sixties/early Seventies of stellar talents like Scorsese , Coppola , Altman and Bertolucci . |
| 17 | Because I 'm because John Gummer 's responsibilities extend a long way into things like housing and stuff as well do n't they ? |
| 18 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 19 | A CAB interview with scant attention to emotional problems is generally lengthy because forms are complex ; because benefit calculations take a long time ; because contacting the Department of Social Security on the telephone takes even longer and calculating an equitable distribution of debt repayments longer still . |
| 20 | Just as the Biesbosch on the Rhine delta was a centre for the Dutch underground opposition to Hitler , so the English wetlands have a long history as centres of resistance . |
| 21 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 22 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 23 | By noon the sun has come up and it 's getting very warm ; the orchard appears peaceful , the sound of guns seem a long distance away . |
| 24 | The preceding twenty-five pages describe a long walk taken by Philip Parrish ( in his thirteenth year ) with his uncle Richard . |
| 25 | ‘ Your own stories go a long way towards doing that . ’ |
| 26 | THE picture above shows the ideal set-up for the modern work station , and the new EC regulations go a long way to achieving this . |
| 27 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 28 | ‘ The pace of life is slow there — things take a long time in changing . |
| 29 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 30 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |