Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know that some British civil servants are making considerable efforts to improve erm in these terms but erm I think we 've still got a long way to go in appreciating the importance of at least being able to understand somebody else 's language , erm even if you ca n't always erm communicate in it as well as you can in your own . |
| 32 | At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off . |
| 33 | Thankfully that day still seems a long way off . |
| 34 | Nevertheless , the report went on , " agreement still seems a long way off " . |
| 35 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 36 | The top still looked a long way away . |
| 37 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 38 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 39 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 40 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 41 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 42 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 43 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 44 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 45 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 46 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 47 | A spokesman from Body Positive , a support group for people with the virus justified the campaign : ‘ We still have a long way to go because the general public is still very ignorant and there 's a lot of misinformation around . ’ |
| 48 | Continued help in learning Spanish — I can now communicate , but still have a long way to go in fully understanding what people are saying to me |
| 49 | Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels . |
| 50 | A closer look at the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology reveals that we still have a long way to go to realise them fully . |
| 51 | They saw the boom falling , but still have a long way to go to fill the hole that the decline of the mainframe is about to open up . |
| 52 | Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated . |
| 53 | I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go . |
| 54 | Others still have a long way to go and a lot to learn about their disabilities . |
| 55 | Richard Spindler and Julia Verity know they still have a long way to go . |
| 56 | Britons join pasta set BRITONS are eating more pasta than ever before but they still have a long way to go to match their continental neighbours , according to a survey by pasta makers Buitoni . |
| 57 | Det Insp Gordon Williams added : ‘ We still have a long way to go before we reach our target . |
| 58 | But even with the successful , and still limited legislation , backed up with the pressure of millions of pounds recovered in compensation by our union , we still have a long way to go . |
| 59 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 60 | This is a real advantage when using the A2 live and also goes a long way to keeping the engineer happy in the studio , without taking precious minutes to reprogram . |