Example sentences of "a long [noun] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Johnson and Mike Grindley did n't even know each other when they were part of the seven thousand strong workforce at GCHQ … now they regularly share breakfast … and a long campaign since they were sacked . |
| 2 | It 's all a long way since his early acting days on the stage in the late Seventies which culminated in playing Lady MacDuff in an all-male production of Macbeth in Glasgow . |
| 3 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
| 4 | Microwave ovens have come a long way since they first appeared in our kitchens about 20 years ago , but how do you know which type will suit your style of cooking ? |
| 5 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 8 | Rufus had come a long way since the Goblander days and the car he got into to drive himself to the hospital he attended two mornings a week was a Mercedes , not yet a year old . |
| 9 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 10 | He implied , in other words , that the BFASS had been brought a long way since its restrictive outlook had so divided the 1840 World Convention . |
| 11 | He has come a long way since he worked as a production runner with James Wong Howe and Martin Ritt in a coal-mining village in Pennsylvania . |
| 12 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 13 | Viruses have come a heck of a long way since we last took an in-depth look at anti-virus software back in November 1990 . |
| 14 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 15 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 16 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 17 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 18 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 19 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 20 | THE greeting cards , gift wrap and stationery people T&A Thompson Cards have come a long way since it all began for them in a garage about 15 years ago — they have just opened a superb new outlet in the Ravenhill Business Park . |
| 21 | We 've come a long way since a 1953 bride-to-be wrote a despairing plea to a weekly magazine for someone to offer a more varied menu than cold ham , salad and trifle for her wedding breakfast . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
| 24 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 25 | It was a long while since she had heard Con laugh like that ; lately , he never seemed to find much to laugh at . |
| 26 | It was a long while since she had visited her old home , and longer still since she had lived there as a girl . |
| 27 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 28 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 29 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 30 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |