Example sentences of "have come a long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler .
33 ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’
34 You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that .
35 You 've come a long way in a short time . ’
36 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
37 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
38 Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 .
39 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 ’ .
40 ‘ They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
41 Washington had come a long way from the converted house of 1835 , the charmingly simple Italianate villa of 1851 , or even the pleasingly revivalist Baltimore and Potomac of 1873–7 .
42 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
43 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 " .
44 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 .
45 But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’
46 Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough .
47 The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism .
48 Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion !
49 Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) .
50 We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago .
51 In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then
52 We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness .
53 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 .
54 We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
55 Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift .
56 We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
57 But I have come a long way since then
58 We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic .
59 ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe .
60 Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information .
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