Example sentences of "[verb] a very long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | To leap from this standpoint to the assumption that we have an everlasting soul is to leap a very long way — probably too far . |
| 2 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 3 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 4 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 5 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 6 | Joint Planning , it seems to me , still has a very long way to go . |
| 7 | However , the volume of research varies considerably from one polytechnic to another and , in general , it has a very long way to go before it begins to approach that generated within universities . |
| 8 | And that , in 1957 , seemed a very long way off . |
| 9 | The two miles to Casterbridge seemed a very long way to the woman , who was tired and ill . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So far , we 've actually managed to characterise about 1600 of that 50,000 and so we 've got a very long way to go . |
| 12 | It looked as if we 'd travelled a very long way to get nowhere . |
| 13 | By the time Siward 's army had reached the plains by the Forth , it would have marched a very long way , and suffered fighting , and would be drawn , in any case , only from those regions Siward was master of , for neither Wessex nor Mercia , it was sure , would waste men on extending Northumbria 's empire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You 'll have to go a very long way to find a series of more disparaging , gloom laden , negative reports , and this , in a season when Linfield 's performances actually won them the league ! |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well , all I can say is , it is something of which a very small amount goes a very long way . " |
| 19 | Unfortunately a very little amount of oil goes a very long way , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you could always take a very long way round . ’ |
| 21 | With the Enterprise alone likely to cost over $1 thousand million , its entry into mining seems a very long way off . |
| 22 | The news that she had in fact been successful in her interview went a very long way to ease her bruised feelings — so much so that when the day dawned when she was to start her new job she almost forgot to pull her hair back into a screwed-up knot , and to don her glasses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They had gone a very long way into the tunnel . |
| 25 | These can go a very long way to mollifying those individuals whose journeys are lengthened by traffic-affecting measures . |
| 26 | Young Mr Woodroofe , you read it here first , will eventually go a very long way indeed . |
| 27 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've a very long way to go . ’ |
| 29 | We had both come a very long way . |
| 30 | But both research and theory into the structure and mechanisms of conversation have a very long way to go . |