Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [vb pp] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | One-room living has come a long way from the old bed-sitter image with its general note of poverty and desperation . |
| 2 | The Iraqi leader 's threatened a long range missile strike on Israel if it does n't leave the occupied territories after yesterday 's violence that left nineteen Palestinians dead . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 5 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 8 | Most , if not all , of the more seriously disadvantaged areas have experienced a long history of marginalisation and of dependence on distant or alien authorities . |
| 9 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 10 | For Greece , as for Germany and one other country in the NATO alliance , the cold war had shut a long border on the other side of which lay once-familiar territory . |
| 11 | Later excavations have shown a long sequence of development from a late Saxon farm or manorial complex with two phases of churches , to a medieval manor house . |
| 12 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 13 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 14 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 18 | Himalayan skiing has had a long and painfully slow gestation period beginning with the activities of various Indian Army Officers in the early part of the century . |
| 19 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 20 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 21 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 22 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |
| 23 | Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London . |