Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has [verb] 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 | This union has got a long history of , this union 's got a long history of amalgamations , some conducted more successfully than others . |
| 3 | Contemporary psychology has come a long way from the time when J. B. Watson , the first behaviourist , forbade the consideration of non-observable entities . |
| 4 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | American Pentecostalism has travelled a long way from its roots in the southern states . |
| 8 | Indeed the latest text has gone a long way towards meeting the UK 's objections . ’ |
| 9 | The loss of Davies to Widnes last January has cast a long shadow over British rugby . |