Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] a long " in BNC.
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1 | At the same time , I 'm a long way from being young enough to imagine , as you do , that marriage is the answer to all life 's little problems . |
2 | What you would do in your case with children is probably appoint them all and then they do n't all have to prove so they would hopefully discuss this at the time and say Well you know I 'm a long way away why do n't you two get on with . |
3 | ‘ I 'm a long way away , Simon , ’ said my dad . |
4 | I 'm a long way from that , though . |
5 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
6 | He may yet tour India next winter , for there is a three-month break before the challenge of a calmer series against swing and spin — ‘ You are a long time retired , ’ he says impishly . |
7 | He may yet tour India next winter , for there is a three-month break before the challenge of a calmer series against swing and spin — ‘ You are a long time retired , ’ he says impishly . |
8 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
9 | Campese , who hopes to face the Barbarians at Twickenham on Saturday , is more direct , saying : ‘ I play because I enjoy it and as long as I am enjoying my rugby and I am wanted — well , you are a long time retired . ’ |
10 | As I said , I 'm never often out , and if you 're a long way from home it 's always good to have some place to drop in to . |
11 | ‘ After all … you 're a long time retired ’ , he says . |
12 | With a first baby you 're a long time , especially with my build . |
13 | But it 's hard on Tour when you 're a long way from home and the only creature comforts you have are a television , a telephone and a McDonald 's around the corner . |
14 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
15 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
16 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
17 | Webb , 28 , who played for Northern until his medical studies took him to the west country , said : ‘ You 're a long time retired . |
18 | when you go into the villa , A you 've , got to have a car because there 's not a shop and B you 're a long way from the airport and if you get taxis you 're talking about fifty pound a touch from the airport , so that 's twice , so there 's a hundred pound gone already |
19 | Cor you 're a long time coming back from the Rose and Crown , do n't forget that 's where we were |
20 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
21 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
22 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
23 | We are a long way removed from the 1929 Larousse dictionary 's definition of the term : ‘ act or way of cultivating the soil or certain plants ’ , with the added gloss : ‘ this word is sometimes used , like the German word Kultur , to mean civilisation , though with particular reference to the Germanic peoples ’ ! |
24 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
25 | And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals . |
26 | However , if the idea of an extended OPAC whereby the user can access other online databases via the online catalogue is to be realized , it would appear that we are a long way away from presenting an acceptable interface for the user . |
27 | Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology . |
28 | We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) . |
29 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
30 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |