Example sentences of "[am/are] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There 's quite a cloud of smoke , ’ muttered Heather uneasily , ‘ and we 're a long way from it up here . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah well , my dear , you must remember they 're a long way from home , and many of them have n't had much feminine company for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , they look smaller when they 're a long way off , ’ Masklin muttered . |
| 4 | They 're a long way away . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We 're a long way from Cambridge now , and my name is Rose . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ But they 're a long way away . ’ |
| 9 | You 're a long way from home here , right ? |
| 10 | ‘ And you 're a long way from being a saint , are n't you ? ’ he drawled mischievously . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We 're a long way off retiring yet , Marlene . |
| 13 | But , I mean we 're a long way from that , and I do n't want people to think that I 'm from saying er redundancies are imminent , er |
| 14 | We 're a long way from anywhere here , Fran . |
| 15 | It 's mainly the feeling of insecurity when they 're a long way out from a telephone . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | The new appointments demonstrate a commitment by the Saatchi brothers to restore the company 's fortunes and suggest they are a long way from turning their backs on the business they built . |
| 18 | ‘ You are a long way from Achnacarry , Piper ! |
| 19 | Indeed in many cases they are a long way away from having done so . |
| 20 | At the same time , many of the disadvantaged areas , such as parts of the Mediterranean , Scotland and western Ireland , are a long way from urban and industrial centres . |
| 21 | The only other sense man has had any success in recording and reproducing on its own is sight , although moving pictures and videos are a long way from fooling the human eye in quite the way sound can fool the ear . |
| 22 | Such interviews provide an index of ‘ psychological malaise ’ but they are a long way from producing the more concrete statistics provided by medical consultation , prescription levels and mortality rates . |
| 23 | Anne was right in saying that ‘ you tend to lose the origin of it ’ ; the origins are a long way from what remains , but it does not really matter . |
| 24 | For the guerrillas of Guatemala 's URNG , peace and a return to party politics are a long way off . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
| 27 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 28 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
| 29 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 30 | 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 ’ ! |