Example sentences of "they [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | These may seem trivial examples , but they go a long way towards helping teachers assess the success of different parts of the school in which they work and , ultimately , that of the whole institution . |
| 4 | Taken together they go a long way in explaining the birth and persistence of aesthetic modernism . |
| 5 | The new proposals on water competition were introduced following our discussion in Committee , and they go a long way to improving competition in the water industry . |
| 6 | They 've a long way to go if one of these youngsters are to compete at Sydney in the year 2 000 … but already they 've claimed a notable scalp . |
| 7 | They had a long way to go . |
| 8 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 9 | If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak . |
| 11 | They have a long way to go . |
| 12 | But they have a long way to recover . |