Example sentences of "[noun] have come a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 3 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 14 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 19 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 20 | ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man . |
| 21 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 24 | That newspapers had come a long way in the interim period was beyond doubt ; that they were to travel even further was to be confirmed by the manner in which the Cadburys disposed of the News Chronicle in 1960 . |
| 25 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 26 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 27 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 30 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |