Example sentences of "[noun] have [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 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 7 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 . |
| 12 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 13 | Gemma 's got a long way to go before she gets to eighty |
| 14 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 19 | Phil 's got a long way to go actually |
| 20 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 21 | The Thatcher governments have gone a long way towards puncturing claims about the power of the unions . |
| 22 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 23 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 26 | Modern petrological studies have gone a long way towards answering this question : polished hard-rock axes seem to have been made from stone obtained from a limited number of outcrops . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 29 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 30 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |