Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheese is a protein of high biological value and a little goes a long way . |
| 2 | The other characteristic is that their influence seems out of all proportion to the amount present : a little goes a long way . |
| 3 | Although they can be expensive , essential oils are highly concentrated substances ; in practice , a little goes a long way . |
| 4 | It 's not cheap but the dispenser means a little goes a long way and it 's more hygienic than a pot . |
| 5 | I doubt if the soot would actively harm your fish , but a little goes a long way . |
| 6 | With leaves that are streaked with bright cream or marked in bold , gold blotches , a little goes a long way . |
| 7 | Yes , I have , but … but a little goes a long way . ’ |
| 8 | Yet a little goes a long way . |
| 9 | A little goes a long way ; too much is unbearably sentimental . |
| 10 | A LITTLE goes a long way with UNICEF . |
| 11 | In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect . |
| 12 | Since it necessarily takes a long time to produce such a report , the mandatory period within which the legal claim should be registered has frequently , even usually , expired before the report is available . |
| 13 | The theory thus involves a long phase of stillstand with a sea level considerably lower than the present one in the latter part of the Tertiary period immediately prior to the Ice Age . |
| 14 | However , if the arbitrageur already holds a long position in those shares which can not be sold short , short selling these shares can be replaced by the liquidation of some or all of the arbitrageur 's existing long positions . |
| 15 | He believes it still has a long way to go . |
| 16 | The stock still has a long way to go before its regains the 780p level at which its stood in early April before a warning of a slow-down in sales . |
| 17 | The other part , communication , still has a long way to go . |
| 18 | It is sad that a man with so many good qualities should have led so many down the wrong path , damaging the sport he obviously loves , but I feel that the Charlie Francis story still has a long way to go . |
| 19 | The DTI still has a long way to go before it can seriously contest the Treasury 's hegemony over matters economic . |
| 20 | Kubota has at least half a dozen Alpha chips in the labs , but says it still has a long way to go before there is sufficient software support to bring out the Titan 2.0 . |
| 21 | The IMS 's final comment is important : ‘ If economic revolutions are about wealth creation rather than redistribution , this latest one still has a long way to go ’ ( ‘ Services : the second industrial revolution ? ’ by Amin Rajan , Report by the Institute of Manpower Services Group , Butterworths , reported in the Financial Times , 5 February 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Even if Hanson holds on to the British end of the ARC operation , it still has a long list of ConsGold assets to offload including : |
| 23 | Superior still looks a long way off . |
| 24 | Still takes a long time to chew . |
| 25 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 26 | He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay . |
| 27 | Well it 's always takes a long time . |
| 28 | Thankfully that day still seems a long way off . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the report went on , " agreement still seems a long way off " . |
| 30 | 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 . |