Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have [verb] a long " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
6 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
9 | Both men had fought a long and isolated battle against the move from London . |