Example sentences of "[verb] a long way " in BNC.
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31 | Wintec and Thorowgood saddles have come a long way since early designs and Thorowgood also make wipe-clean bridles that look smart enough for most occasions . |
32 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
33 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
34 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
35 | Microwave ovens have come a long way since they first appeared in our kitchens about 20 years ago , but how do you know which type will suit your style of cooking ? |
36 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
37 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | But manufacturers have come a long way from the aluminium-framed picture windows that disfigured so many homes in the early days of the replacement window boom , and a wide range of window styles is now available . |
42 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
43 | 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 . |
44 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
45 | 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 . |
46 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
47 | 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 . |
48 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
49 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
50 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
51 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
52 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
53 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
54 | 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 . |
55 | 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 . |
56 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
57 | Anna has come a long way from the Romanian orphanage where she spent the first two years of her life , a malnourished , incontinent infant with a shaven head . |
58 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
59 | Then the Bishop firmly gripped the King 's tunic round his chest and shook it violently , saying again , " You owe me a kiss because I have come a long way to see you . " |
60 | He had come a long way . |