"It's a long way to come, but people always say it's worth it, " says guest house owner David Marshall.
But reality kicks in and it's a long way to go until the end of April.
"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.
"It's a long way for people to travel if they are ill to go to Stoke now - it's too much, " she said.
"It's surprising to me that it's taken someone so long to figure out a way that we can track each towel and create some sort of towel accountability, " he said.
It's a ship that brings containers from Canada to Liverpool - it's quite a sizeable ship - it's about 210m long and it's about to swing to go through a passage way in order to gain access to the lock.
Yet it's a long way from here to a 3, 800 Dow and a Great Depression.
That's because a lot of core functionality is still missing from the OS, such as the ability to play music files or import real-life contacts, and there's a long way to go if it's to be signed off as "code complete" in October.
And suddenly if the price of gasoline doubles, it's going to be very expensive to live a long way from work.
Their campaign has been just as shambolic and farcical as the Tory party's - and it still has a long way to run.
So, you know, it's a long way before we're going to be in front of a jury.
At the regional training center near Kandahar city, it's clear the national police have a long way to go.
So in that way, it does certainly help the Democrats over the Republicans, but it's a long way between now and the 2006 elections and it's just too early to say what role Bush or the national issues have or will have on local races.
What the national intelligence community is trying to explain is this is a long and very hard way, and it's not going to end soon.
It's no secret that we still have a long way to go before achieving gender equity in the fields collectively known as STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
But it's a long way from the kind of billions required to make this industry motor, and get turbine makers such as Gamesa and Areva to deliver on their conditional manufacturing announcements for Scotland.
When you're under that kind of pressure - you're losing wickets, the ball is reverse swinging and you've got the best spin bowler in the world bowling at the other end turning it a long way - it's hard to make batting decisions.
In other words, there's still a long way to go legislatively before a bailout for Detroit makes it to President Bush's desk for his signature.
Sure, we've got satellite radio in the U.S. But the Brits have DAB digital audio broadcasts that are free over the air as long as you've got a DAB receiver (America's answer to DAB, HD radio, has a long way to go before it even comes close to DAB in terms of reach).
It's all a long way away - but we've got to train hard.
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But, Chip, I think it's safe to say that the President remains frustrated and believes that the compensation practices of Wall Street have a long way to go.
There are challenges that remain, but it's important to remember that Egypt has come a very long way.
It's a long way from the childhood bedroom with a few posters tacked to the wall, or the high-school hangout carved from a wood-paneled basement.
Washington still has a long way to go, but it's no longer the city with the lowest marks, a distinction that now belongs to Detroit.
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