Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] had [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 6 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 7 | Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London . |