Example sentences of "[verb] a long way [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 2 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 3 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 4 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 5 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking of people someone shall we say er Well I I 've got two sons one lives locally and one lives a long way away . |
| 7 | The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away . |
| 8 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 9 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 10 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 11 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 12 | At first , the war seemed a long way away , and the Otago CA reported that the 1914–15 summer promised to be a most successful one , with the ‘ services of world-renowned player , J.N. Crawford ’ ensuring that Otago cricket would be second to none in New Zealand . |
| 13 | My posting to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes seemed a long way away . |
| 14 | it seemed a long way away |
| 15 | Gateshead and the Reed family seemed a long way away . |
| 16 | It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort . |
| 17 | Humankind and human structures seemed a long way away . |
| 18 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 19 | The Tyneside star , who has recovered from a groin injury , admitted afterwards : ‘ The Olympic Games seem a long way away . |
| 20 | Because she had been reluctant to meet up with Celeste again , she had sat in a public stand a long way away from the private seating , the grid , the pits , but now she raced back towards them . |
| 21 | I 've travelled a long way today . ’ |
| 22 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 23 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 24 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 25 | They lived a long way away , but they decided to take a weeks holiday in Cornwall and decided to see Daryl in the middle of it . |
| 26 | The initial pitches gave easy climbing up the low angled base , but as usual with routes having ( F6a ) and ( F6b ) moves , there were only two or three bolts a long way apart . |
| 27 | Holbein sounds a long way away from Braque but I think it 's a question of visual patterns , the division of the area . |
| 28 | The largest conventional university is the University of London ( in effect a federation of largely independent colleges ) , which has over 40,000 students , followed a long way behind by the Universities of Wales , Oxford , Cambridge , Leeds and Manchester , each of which have over 10,000 students . |
| 29 | Th th that we er we , we are moving a long way away from this egalitarian position , we 've abandoned that and we 've said right we , we are |
| 30 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |