Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 2 | THE SHAMEN have come quite a long way from their origins as an indie psychedelic outfit . |
| 3 | ‘ I do seem to have come quite a long way . ’ |
| 4 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 5 | However , if you are correcting for drift with one wing well down , and then the cable breaks , you may find that you have already turned quite a long way , and that it is easier to keep that turn going if you can not get down ahead . |
| 6 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 7 | This tradition itself can be traced back a long way in political theory . |
| 8 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 9 | By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice . |
| 10 | But I think those days are now over and anybody who 's been in building societies , there 's now a feeling er that things have altered quite a long way . |
| 11 | And it 's reputation has travelled or it it 's false reputation has travelled quite a long way . |