Example sentences of "the [noun] have come a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
2 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
3 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
4 | ‘ The dog 's come a long way , ’ said another man . |
5 | ‘ The players , myself and the staff have come a long way together and are not about to let all the hard work go down the drain . ’ |
6 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Today the Garrett manufacturing vase shows the company to have come a long way from the first detectors built on the garage bench . |
9 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |