Example sentences of "[vb pp] a long way " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ? |
| 32 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 33 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 45 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 46 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 47 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 48 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | There are still many gaps , but we have come a long way . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | We 've come a long way — with everyday improvements such as … |
| 55 | 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 . " |
| 56 | He had come a long way . |
| 57 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 58 | I hear you 've come a long way . " |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | They had come a long way very fast . |