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Example sentences of "we have [verb] a long way " in BNC.

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1	But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
2	But sh sh sure they can succ succ they can succeed in creating capitalism , it , it it , it might succeed in paving the way for new China 's industrialization but we 've gone a long way from any any ideological position , we 've gone a long way from well what is in the best material benefiting class of the poor peasant now the poor peasant is not gon na get very much out of this .
3	‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on .
4	‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’
5	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 .
6	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 .
7	We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as …
8	We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler .
9	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 .
10	It does n't need me to say that we 've got a long way to go .
11	If we can achieve this , we have gone a long way towards solving the axe typology problem since groups of similarly shaped axes would appear as distinct clusters on the page and could be easily identified by eye .
12	Certainly we have gone a long way to improve the ‘ traditional ’ British Rail sandwich . ’
13	We have travelled a long way from the traditional " dualist " and " monist " views of style outlined in Chapter 1 .
14	We have travelled a long way from the original accelerationist hypothesis as set out in Friedman 's Presidential Address .
15	Truly , we have travelled a long way from the high hopes and higher hyperbole of the 1980s , when inward investment offered a fast-track escape route from a crumbling manufacturing base .
16	What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading .
17	Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ?
18	‘ We have to go a long way south before we get to Alaska , ’ he said .
19	We have come a long way .
20	We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago .
21	We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness .
22	There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way .
23	We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
24	We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
25	We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences .
26	We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic .
27	‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe .
28	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 .