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

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1	‘ We 've come a long way , you and I , ’ Michael went on .
2	‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as …
6	We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler .
7	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 .
8	We have come a long way .
9	We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago .
10	We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness .
11	There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way .
12	We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
13	We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
14	We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences .
15	We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic .
16	‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe .
17	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 .