Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [verb] a long way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 2 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 3 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 4 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 5 | And in fact patient research has gone a long way towards resolving this knotty problem . |
| 6 | Cuba has gone a long way to reducing gender inequalities , though power relations still clearly favour men , a fact of which all Cubans , including their leaders , are very aware . |
| 7 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 8 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 9 | The Community has gone a long way towards achieving that central purpose ; towards taming nationalism without suppressing patriotism ; towards sharing sovereignty without destroying nations ; and towards putting the magic of markets to work for society in a stable democratic setting . |
| 10 | But the industrial robot has come a long way since the early sixties when Joe Engelberger set up Unimation , the world 's first industrial robot making company . |
| 11 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 12 | ‘ Sound does travel a long way , does n't it ? |
| 13 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 14 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 15 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 16 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
| 17 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 18 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 19 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 20 | ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man . |
| 21 | If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way . |
| 22 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 23 | I think the Home Secretary has gone a long way to meet many anxieties which were expressed |
| 24 | This is a bit odd cos Banbury 's got a long way to travel |
| 25 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 26 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 27 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 28 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 29 | Fortunately , our neutering scheme has gone a long way to alleviating this problem . ’ |
| 30 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |