Example sentences of "we are a long [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | We are a long way from liberating the woman from the artificial status of woman artist , which only serves to segregate her further and prevents her working as an individual professional artist , regardless of her political stance — do we call a man a male artist ? |
2 | We are a long way from Egypt , but in many ways the secular world is as merciless as Islam . |
3 | We are a long way from the time where a computer could pass a reasonable judgement on the quality of an electronic document . |
4 | We are a long way removed from the 1929 Larousse dictionary 's definition of the term : ‘ act or way of cultivating the soil or certain plants ’ , with the added gloss : ‘ this word is sometimes used , like the German word Kultur , to mean civilisation , though with particular reference to the Germanic peoples ’ ! |
5 | Add to this cost the growth in government expenditure , and we are a long way in explaining why the real value of the tax threshold , or the level of income at which tax begins to be paid , has fallen during the post-war period . |
6 | And I know that they 're using cultures and things but I still think that we are a long way from not using animals . |
7 | However , if the idea of an extended OPAC whereby the user can access other online databases via the online catalogue is to be realized , it would appear that we are a long way away from presenting an acceptable interface for the user . |
8 | Apparently , the institute is considering building a pilot plant , but little is known about its proposals , and clearly we are a long way from that becoming a viable alternative to present-day technology . |
9 | We are a long way from those factory-owners of the 1830s , living in constant fear of something like slave insurrections ( see The Age of Revolution , epigraph to chapter 11 ) . |