Example sentences of "have [verb] a long [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre 's directors recognise that the price of a microcomputer still has to fall a long way before the machines can play an important role in Third World education . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 6 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 9 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 10 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 11 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
| 12 | I retraced my steps , by this time it was 7 pm and I 'd done a long walk and about 45 miles on the bike . |
| 13 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 14 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 15 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 16 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 17 | I think he should have got a longer sentence or maybe tried in Crown Court , but not just got away with three months . |
| 18 | Unlike the fourth floor of Lloyd 's , it has a purpose-built trading floor , but the exchange might have to sign a longer lease than it needs . |
| 19 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 20 | But er we , we had quite a difficulty , very , very difficult , we used to have to walk a long way before we could get to a telephone . |
| 21 | It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it . |
| 22 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 23 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Mr McKillop , you 've travelled a long way and you 've worked hard but I think this is as far as you 're likely to get . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But I 've come a long way and er so I 'll go back next er Wednesday to the department and er er if people will bear with me and put up with it er I 'll take it er fairly slowly to start with but I dare say there will come a time when er erm you wo n't notice much difference . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 30 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |