Example sentences of "come [art] long [noun] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 It has come a long way in the last decade .
33 If we wish to measure the past in terms of life-expectancy , poverty , ignorance , disease , education , comfort and leisure , then there is no doubt that the modern world in the West has come a long way .
34 But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available .
35 ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’
36 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 .
37 He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way .
38 In situations where tempers are getting raised , we can stand back and make everyone aware of what is happening and the effect on progress : ‘ We all seem to be getting very heated about this , and we 've come a long way from the main issue .
39 It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert .
40 H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes .
41 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
42 ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister .
43 BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests .
44 You 've come a long way in a short time . ’
45 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
46 First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right .
47 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 .
48 And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then .
49 There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way .
50 Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head .
51 We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as …
52 Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . "
53 He had come a long way .
54 The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way .
55 I hear you 've come a long way . "
56 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 .
57 They had come a long way very fast .
58 Having successfully made the leap from television to the silver screen , she 's come a long way from her origins in Nowheresville , Nevada , but then Nowheresville , Nevada , sounds a little like Twin Peaks .
59 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 .
60 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
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