Example sentences of "we [adv] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | With our sister company , Wood Group Engineering Contractors , we successfully secured a long term contract from BP to provide integrated engineering services for the Miller , Magnus and Thistle platforms . |
| 2 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 3 | A spokesman from Body Positive , a support group for people with the virus justified the campaign : ‘ We still have a long way to go because the general public is still very ignorant and there 's a lot of misinformation around . ’ |
| 4 | Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels . |
| 5 | A closer look at the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology reveals that we still have a long way to go to realise them fully . |
| 6 | I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go . |
| 7 | Clearly at the state of the talks with the T & G , we still have a long long way to go to reach this new goal and there 's a strong rumour that there has been discussions between Sir John Edmunds and Lord Bill Morris the name of the new union already and I think an apt title for the union at the moment would be Yugoslavia because we 're in ethnic groups , we are sections , we 've got the boiler makers who are still claiming things they lost ten years ago when they merged . |
| 8 | Det Insp Gordon Williams added : ‘ We still have a long way to go before we reach our target . |
| 9 | But even with the successful , and still limited legislation , backed up with the pressure of millions of pounds recovered in compensation by our union , we still have a long way to go . |
| 10 | From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home . |
| 11 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 12 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |