Example sentences of "a long way [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ It 's lonely being a long way ahead so you have to get youself into a cocoon to protect yourself from the thoughts that can trouble your mind . ’ |
| 2 | The Conservatives have been a long way ahead of Labour not just in seats ( an arbitrary effect of the electoral system ) but also in votes . |
| 3 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 4 | A long way ahead of him , a young woman was walking , slowly , swinging her handbag . |
| 5 | The shares are still looking a long way ahead . |
| 6 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 7 | But they were a long way ahead now , and his mother would never guess what he was up to . |
| 8 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 9 | A long way ahead of me , on a narrow farm road , were half a dozen cows . |
| 10 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 11 | Sara ignored them as the boat chugged out to sea ; soon the harbour and the cliffs were a long way away . |
| 12 | Twickenham is a long way away and the message from the North is that the Rugby Football Union needs to plough more resources into its missionary work in the area . |
| 13 | She 's a long way away . |
| 14 | It 's like everything 's a long way away , and everything 's real big and unreal looking . |
| 15 | Mr. Kinnock is not alone in thinking that a united Ireland may be ‘ a long way away ’ . |
| 16 | Well , until sixty-five , and that 's a hell of a long way away . |
| 17 | Indeed in many cases they are a long way away from having done so . |
| 18 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
| 19 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 20 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 21 | At that time , September was a long way away , in fact I was n't really thinking beyond the date that my baby was due , the 6th of April . |
| 22 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 23 | A LONG time ago and a long way away , a factory dumped sludge containing organic mercury into the sea . |
| 24 | Certainly in principle , and also in fact , the gene reaches out through the individual body wall and manipulates objects in the world outside , some of them inanimate , some of them other living beings , some of them a long way away . |
| 25 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 26 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 27 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 28 | The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps . |
| 29 | And I was going to consult you , but really Algeria is a long way away , and you never seem to be in Paris … so , yes , I sold some rather boring stock that was as safe as Fort Knox and about as immobile , and invested in de Chavigny . |
| 30 | I live a long way away , actually . |