Example sentences of "is [adv] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gasgcoine is rather a long word to say so I suppose the boys at school call him Gazza . |
| 2 | ‘ Three years , I admit , is rather a long time . |
| 3 | Six years alone is rather a long time . ’ |
| 4 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 5 | In the case of d ) , this is perhaps a long term strategy which will yield a slow but , hopefully , steady trickle . |
| 6 | You see , because everybody everybody from Mexico , right down to the er to the tip of South America , for example , er speak one dialect or another of er of er of of of of Spain , of the Spanish language , and large areas of er of er the Indes you see , er and Italian is not a long way from it , you see , so er er er it it on the surface it may seem to have have been difficult , but the er you know there we we we did get by . |
| 7 | Gradually , countries are coming to their senses and realising that non-stop exploitation of rainforest resources is not a long term answer to poverty . |
| 8 | Your son has suffered a terrible loss — six months is not a long period of time to get over such a trauma . |
| 9 | Such connections are occasionally recognised in orthodox medicine where there is not a long time delay between one complaint developing and the next , though the significance of the link between diseases is frequently missed . |
| 10 | Two weeks is not a long time especially as social workers have many competing claims on their time . |
| 11 | Three weeks is not a long time to debate a Bill , but the number of hours that we can devote to the Bill during that period will be perfectly adequate . |
| 12 | There is already a long list of great British industries — from shipbuilding to motorcycles — which have slid into terminal decline . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that there is a delay between diagnosis and reporting of cases of AIDS and that there is usually a long interval between infection with HIV and the development of AIDS , so the published statistics do not accurately reflect the spread of HIV infection . |
| 14 | For me it is still a long haul towards fluency ( and the closer you get , the more tempting just to stop with what you have ) but that sense of a door opening when you reach the conversational level makes the effort of getting another language worthwhile . |
| 15 | Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above . |
| 16 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 17 | Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s . |
| 18 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 19 | Despite what may have appeared as the rejuvenation of an all-but-lost career , Solly is still a long way from committing himself to the marathon . |
| 20 | But there are more fundamental reasons why unity with either Rome or the Orthodox is still a long way off . |
| 21 | Eventually , as the generalizations are built up ( and in this field of research there is still a long way to go ) a ‘ theory ’ of social aspects of theatre can be built which will be based on social empirical foundations rather than shaky speculation or sweeping generalizations . |
| 22 | But that does not mean Britain can rest on its laurels — there is still a long way to go . |
| 23 | The current South African team is still a long way from emulating the 1960s side which could well have claimed World Championship status if they had been able to test their strength against Garry Sobers ' West Indies . |
| 24 | ‘ But there is still a long way to go and we will keep on striving to end injustices against consumers . |
| 25 | But Smith said bluntly : ‘ The League race is only at the half-way stage and there is still a long way to go . ’ |
| 26 | With two matches against Brugge , then the important trip to Marseille and the last game against the Russians , there is still a long way to go . |
| 27 | The dt route suddenly appeared to be promising , though there is still a long way to go as it takes 20 to 40 times this to make a muon in a particle accelerator . |
| 28 | Yet , despite its prominence in headhunting in the USA and its global dominance as the highest-earning executive search firm in the world , Korn/Ferry is still a long way from being number one in fee income in Britain . |
| 29 | However , a policy which takes full account of women 's needs is still a long way off ( Cockburn , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | Although he realises there is still a long way to go , he does believe that the UK 's second year results indicate a sustainable turnaround , adding that last year 's performance was very close to budget . |