Example sentences of "still [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of that first trip , our goal still seemed a long way off . |
| 2 | But Samantha 's freedom still seemed a long way off . |
| 3 | And it annoyed her intensely , not least of all because she still felt a long way from figuring him out ! |
| 4 | The top still looked a long way away . |
| 5 | This was the worst part as by now everyone was tired , hungry , needed a long hot bath and still had a long drive home ; however spirits were cheerful and by the 29th May we were ready to do it all again . |
| 6 | Liz 's education was to take more than three years : she had already decided to specialize in psychiatry , and knew she still had a long journey ahead of her . |
| 7 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 8 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 9 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 10 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 11 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 12 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 13 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 14 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |