Example sentences of "have a long [noun] to go " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We are going to develop inducements and encouragements for a major expansion of research and development , because if we are going to rival our major competitors we have a long way to go in catching up with them .
2 We know from our informal discussions with politicians of all shades of opinion that we have a long way to go , but many have been sympathetic to our aims .
3 Ordinary wild plants , it seems , are weedier than crops , but both have a long way to go to catch up with the real pests .
4 A Union of Democratic Forces spokesman , Mr Georgi Spassov , said : ‘ This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before we have true democracy in Bulgaria . ’
5 If uranium prices are going to swing in favour of fast reactors , they have a long way to go .
6 I 'm fifty and have a long way to go .
7 You have a long way to go to win them back .
8 But markets provide useful competition with local banks , which have a long way to go before they learn to allocate capital efficiently .
9 Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education .
10 The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go .
11 So it is clear we have a long way to go before we can store up all the experiences of humankind .
12 We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job .
13 Unfortunately , as this book points out , some of the alternatives may look good on paper but they have a long way to go before they can match the tokamak .
14 They have a long way to go .
15 Although I feel I have a long way to go , I 'm a lot more aware of myself , so whenever I get twinges of pain I adjust accordingly and the pain immediately eases .
16 If the comments published in your magazine are typical , even the canoeing fraternity there have a long way to go .
17 A spokesman from Body Positive , a support group for people with the virus justified the campaign : ‘ We still have a long way to go because the general public is still very ignorant and there 's a lot of misinformation around . ’
18 ‘ We have a long way to go before we are able to record and translate accurately such imprints of ourselves left behind in the void of time .
19 Continued help in learning Spanish — I can now communicate , but still have a long way to go in fully understanding what people are saying to me
20 The Welsh lads have a long way to go before they match that sort of consistency , but it only needs one to become a permanent fixture for everything to change .
21 The sponsorship money will be used to upgrade facilities at the Stoop Memorial Ground because , according to chairman Roger Looker , ‘ We recognise we have a long way to go towards what we consider to be adequate facilities , particularly if we sustain our growth ’ .
22 The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents .
23 Clearly we still have a long way to go to understand just how InsP 3 acts to open individual channels .
24 A closer look at the supposed benefits of object-oriented technology reveals that we still have a long way to go to realise them fully .
25 They saw the boom falling , but still have a long way to go to fill the hole that the decline of the mainframe is about to open up .
26 Others , focusing on issues such as the inequality in the wages paid to men and women or the violence that women receive at men 's hands , argue that women still have a long way to go before they are fully liberated .
27 Perhaps we are just beginning to see how the brain works , but we have a long way to go .
28 I believe delegation and empowerment is starting to show improvements but we still have a long way to go .
29 This leads me to believe that the questions surrounding male/female relationships are not simple , and we have a long way to go before we can simply pursue the ‘ if only men would ’ formula .
30 At present , we are the only party prepared to grasp the nettle and to recognise that consumers ' interests require both effective competition in the marketplace — the Government have a long way to go before they create that — and effective regulation where the market can not produce a solution .
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