Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 2 | Owen Barfield , both in conversation and in writing , had already gone a long way in revealing to Lewis the fallacy of making sharp distinctions between ‘ myth ’ and ‘ fact ’ . |
| 3 | They also argue that the latest draft of the charter , drawn up by President Mitterrand , has already gone a long way to assuage Mrs Thatcher 's legitimate fears about the loss of British sovereignty . |
| 4 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 5 | Brothers , sisters , President , we 've still got a long way to go . |
| 6 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 7 | I do n't know , there 's still got a long way to go though |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You money has always gone a long way in Thailand . |
| 10 | From being a simple pleasure that had helped take her mind off her troubles , it had now gone a long way towards restoring her rather battered pride . |
| 11 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 12 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 13 | The Signature 's pickup is rather oddly placed a long way from the end of the neck ( obviously by request ) while the JD 's is in the normal position . |
| 14 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 15 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 16 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 17 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 18 | MICHAEL Roberts has certainly gone a long way towards silencing his critics in the past week . |