Example sentences of "a long [noun sg] away " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sara ignored them as the boat chugged out to sea ; soon the harbour and the cliffs were a long way away . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 's a long way away . |
| 4 | It 's like everything 's a long way away , and everything 's real big and unreal looking . |
| 5 | Mr. Kinnock is not alone in thinking that a united Ireland may be ‘ a long way away ’ . |
| 6 | Well , until sixty-five , and that 's a hell of a long way away . |
| 7 | Indeed in many cases they are a long way away from having done so . |
| 8 | Her family were good , but a long way away and there was just no future at all . |
| 9 | It was a good thing I did meet him , as the Well of Lunatics proved to be a long way away . |
| 10 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Shells exploded a long way away across Beirut , down by the port . |
| 13 | A LONG time ago and a long way away , a factory dumped sludge containing organic mercury into the sea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 16 | Her nephew , Tim , was Miss Miggs 's only relative , and he lived a long way away up in the North . |
| 17 | ‘ I love watching lights twinkling a long way away . |
| 18 | The shelter was quite a long way away , and there would n't be time to come back to the steps . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I live a long way away , actually . |
| 21 | But Pipe said : ‘ The Gold Cup is a long way away and we 'll just have to see what happens in the meantime . ’ |
| 22 | Holbein sounds a long way away from Braque but I think it 's a question of visual patterns , the division of the area . |
| 23 | There was a narrow , poky cupboard and a jug and basin from early times but possibly necessary still today since the bathroom was a long way away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They 're a long way away . ’ |
| 26 | It had seemed a long way away , but in some ways it might be quite close . |
| 27 | His own voice sounded a long way away , and muffled . |
| 28 | He saw her dust devil from a long way away , and knew that she had been led here by her own dreams , by the pull of the moon . |
| 29 | A long way away . |
| 30 | The large N-terminal domain lies free in the cytoplasm with the InsP 3 binding site located at its end , a long way away from the channel-forming C-terminal region . |