Example sentences of "have come a long [noun] since " in BNC.

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1 The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat .
2 MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this .
3 Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye .
4 ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister .
5 BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests .
6 For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , .
7 Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings .
8 The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee .
9 Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 .
10 There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago .
11 Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country .
12 The former RAF engineer , of Eskdale , Skelmersdale , has come a long way since 1982 when he suffered a serious heart attack and his health then gradually deteriorated to the point where surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital , Manchester , eventually decided that a heart transplant was Mr Brownrigg 's only chance .
13 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
14 H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes .
15 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
16 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
17 The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ .
18 The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism .
19 Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion !
20 Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) .
21 We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago .
22 In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then
23 We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness .
24 And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then .
25 We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
26 Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift .
27 We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
28 But I have come a long way since then
29 We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic .
30 ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe .
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