Example sentences of "still a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been John 's 28th birthday , but it was still a long day 's work with fellow presenters Anthea Turner and Diane-Louise Jordan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But still a long way to go . |
| 4 | It may not be ready in time , I told her , there 's still a long way to go . |
| 5 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 6 | The new chairman , Dr Gregor Gysi , told an emergency party congress at the weekend that the SED had made a start in ‘ breaking with Stalinism , ’ but added that there was still a long way to go in ‘ overcoming Stalinist structures ’ . |
| 7 | The new chairman , Dr Gregor Gysi , told an emergency party congress at the weekend that the SED had made a start in ‘ breaking with Stalinism , ’ but added that there was still a long way to go in ‘ overcoming Stalinist structures ’ . |
| 8 | But the UK market is still a long way ahead of the worst performers in Datastream 's league table , Hong Kong and Switzerland . |
| 9 | Efficiency plateaux are still a long way from becoming a feature of Southern energy economics . |
| 10 | Even America , where the squeeze on banks is tightest , is still a long way from a banking collapse like that of the 1930s . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There 's still a long way to go , but for both the major parties in the UK , computer campaigning in the constituencies is now widespread . |
| 13 | When the Congregational Union officially urged this new course on the colleges in 1902 there was still a long way to go : A. M. Fairbairn warned Sir Alfred Dale , then Principal of University College , Liverpool , ‘ I think one has to be very careful as to giving the theological colleges power over the regulation of degrees . |
| 14 | Questor Column : Still a long way to go for Waterford |
| 15 | Dustin Hoffman , Robert Redford , Gene Hackman and Robert De Niro were still a long way from making even their first films . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But there are more fundamental reasons why unity with either Rome or the Orthodox is still a long way off . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although I could see marriage appearing in the distance , it was still a long way off . |
| 20 | They were now running alongside the wall , but still a long way from the crossing stile . |
| 21 | While such machines are still a long way from being able to beat the American champion ( there are about 700 Masters in the US ) , it is clear that the period from 1977 to the present has seen a degree and pace of progress in machine chess that is very different in kind from what went on between 1957 and 1976 . |
| 22 | We are still a long way from moving from ‘ the polluted pay ’ to ‘ the polluters pay ’ principle . |
| 23 | In man this is very clear , for although a child may be sexually mature and fully grown quite early on in his or her teens , they are still a long way from any degree of emotional maturity . |
| 24 | But that does not mean Britain can rest on its laurels — there is still a long way to go . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ But there is still a long way to go and we will keep on striving to end injustices against consumers . |
| 27 | But Smith said bluntly : ‘ The League race is only at the half-way stage and there is still a long way to go . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He ran towards him as soon as he came in sight , and he was still a long way from home when the father first spotted him ( Luke 15:20 ) . |
| 30 | But while he was still a long way off … |