Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a long [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 2 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 3 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 4 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 5 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |