Example sentences of "and [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 Shearer has not proved himself yet and has a long way to go . ’
2 The problem is that you are dealing with foreigners who insist on having different money , customs , languages , politics , legislation and living a long way away .
3 A mother with three young children , with no car and living a long way from a general practitioner 's surgery is almost certain not to consult the doctor as often as she should .
4 Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me .
5 Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer .
6 The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her .
7 At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down .
8 I 'm fifty and have a long way to go .
9 Far from being able to produce enough plutonium to make atomic weapons , however , IAEA experts agreed that the plant was " extremely primitive " and remained a long way from completion .
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