Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] long way " in BNC.

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1 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 ’ .
2 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 .
3 Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength .
4 Rob 's group had to walk the long way round into the Jabri Nullah and was rewarded by several days of good skiing .
5 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 .
6 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
7 Yet by the time Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985 , the historical profession had advanced a long way from the crudities of Stalin 's era .
8 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 .
9 By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army .
10 The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " .
11 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
12 By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans .
13 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
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