Example sentences of "'s a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a long pause and she looks confused . |
| 2 | She 's dizzy , she 's a long way off . |
| 3 | ( Recovering them is a matter of great urgency ; and a start has been made , but there 's a long way to go — especially with Upward , whom oblivion has enveloped with a completeness that is startling and significant . ) |
| 4 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 5 | She 's a long way away . |
| 6 | It 's a long way down to the water but I can see a fag packet bobbing along . |
| 7 | It 's like everything 's a long way away , and everything 's real big and unreal looking . |
| 8 | The early signs are encouraging — but there 's a long way to go . |
| 9 | ‘ I have just got it confirmed , but these things take time , and there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 10 | It 's a long way to Tipperary , Mandalay and Bedford Square . |
| 11 | It 's a long way through the massive forests of larch and pine to Novosibirsk , especially if your travelling companion only grunts as he downs another tumbler of cheap vodka . |
| 12 | Bruce Mackenzie was six feet four and that 's a long way up for a two-year-old . |
| 13 | The hit song of the year was ‘ It 's A Long Way to Tipperaray ’ but old Ireland was singing an older song and building up a hidden army . |
| 14 | He 's a long way from the roots of the sport . |
| 15 | It 's a long way down into the gulch . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's a long way from home . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a long way from the back streets of Brixton to the green fields of Huntingdon , ’ he impressed on the county set . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub . |
| 19 | I 'm not getting into a fight over some silly little first-year whether she 's your sister or not , and if you 'll excuse me , this porridge is bad enough hot , but cold it 's inedible and there 's a long way to go till lunchtime . ’ |
| 20 | It 's the closest we 're going to get to a rave tonight , but it 's a long way from the kind of thing Mister C is used to . |
| 21 | We are sitting in a good position now but there 's a long way to go . |
| 22 | It 's a long way down . |
| 23 | GONE : It 's a long way down for a reporter whose life is hanging by a thread |
| 24 | This is hardly a stream of invective and obscenity but it 's a long way from the stuffed shirt formality of the '50s interviews . |
| 25 | It 's a long way from completion , but Bill says he 's already approached ROBERT DE NIRO to play Elvis . |
| 26 | Ed Douglas looks at the continuing controversy surrounding plans to bolt parts of Land 's End and suggests that though the idea may be dead , it 's a long way from being buried |
| 27 | It 's a long way north — apparently out of the mainstream of the chaos which is afflicting Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | IT 'S A long way from the dark night vigils outside the Opera House when protesters railed against Godard 's ‘ blasphemous ’ ‘ Je Vous Salue Marie ’ and Scorcese 's ‘ Last Temptation of Christ ’ ! |
| 29 | ‘ There 's a long way to go before we break down the ‘ them up at Salisbury attitude ’ |
| 30 | " It 's a long way for him to come every time he wants a crap , said Eddie , running off before I could hit him . |