Example sentences of "a long way [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 2 | But he came a long way round from a long way back , and O'Brien , by no means a habitual blamer of jockeys , is still convinced they should have won . |
| 3 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 4 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 5 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 6 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 7 | Oh yeah it 's a long way round is n't it ? |
| 8 | Bruce Mackenzie was six feet four and that 's a long way up for a two-year-old . |
| 9 | The rest of the human was normally little more than the wrong end of a pair of nostrils , a long way up . |
| 10 | It 's a long way up to the road with a carry over the bridge to the nearest place you can park the car and trailer . |
| 11 | From a long way up . ’ |
| 12 | It was a heck of a long way up there as well was n't it ? |
| 13 | That 's a long way up is n't it Bri ? |
| 14 | So it 's a long way up then ? |
| 15 | It is a long way up to that school I know , when , you know by |
| 16 | Elsewhere there is not even the clue of a sentence in Pindar to show who was behind some great construction : Segesta , for instance , a long way over in the interior of the west of the island , had a fine fifth-century temple , the expenses of whose construction can only have been met ( given the position of the city ) from agricultural wealth , that is , from the product of the labour of the native Sikels . |
| 17 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 18 | She 's dizzy , she 's a long way off . |
| 19 | Sleep came to the distant noise of a ship 's siren , blown once , but echoing , a long way off . |
| 20 | Tony offered to walk back towards the vehicle , now a long way off , and left me to think about it all . |
| 21 | During the night I hear the harsh squeal of a fox , a long way off , answered by a staccato bark from one of the dogs . |
| 22 | One day when he was old this would be a nutcracker face but that was a long way off . |
| 23 | Extending the debate over minimum standards to new trading partners in the East is a long way off . |
| 24 | Add this to the illness of Hun Sen , the only member of the Cambodian regime who appears willing to risk his future to give peace a chance , and Cambodian peace looks a long way off . |
| 25 | London futures prices rose 15% to £670 ( $1,170 ) a tonne , but fell within hours : coffee is plentiful and a new international deal on export quotas is a long way off . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's ever such a long way off , ’ said Dot . |
| 27 | At the other end of the size scale , Fiat Geotech 's takeover of Ford New Holland has now been signed , though changes to the two product lines still seem a long way off . |
| 28 | But the vision was a long way off from Britain , for which the first two years of the Fifties were a continuation of wartime in civilian clothes . |
| 29 | Sadly , we agreed , such prospects lie a long way off . |
| 30 | Right now she was hearing as though from a long way off , the sounds somehow muffled . |