Example sentences of "[verb] come a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
| 63 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 64 | 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 . |
| 65 | He had come a long way . |
| 66 | The half-caste prostitute 's son had come a long way . |
| 67 | They had come a long way very fast . |
| 68 | He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland . |
| 69 | I had come a long way ; and I could recognise the signs of travel in others . |
| 70 | One could tell he was a man who had come a long way , and who intended going a great deal further . |
| 71 | If anyone found out and if Alain was angry she would fight it out later , but for now she had come a long way , she was tired , disappointed , and nobody was going to stop her from staying here . |
| 72 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 73 | The Carolingians had come a long way from the single ancestral beer-hall : the chief officers would invite groups of the young men to their houses ( mansiones ) for dinner , " not to encourage gluttony , but for the sake of promoting true rapport ; and rarely would a week go by without each [ youth ] receiving one such invitation from someone " . |
| 74 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 75 | The only difficulty you might face is in getting the right look — doors that match the style of your house — but manufacturers have come a long way from the early aluminium-framed types , and a range of styles is now available . |
| 76 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 77 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 78 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 79 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 80 | We have come a long way . |
| 81 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 82 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 83 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 84 | 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 . |
| 85 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 86 | 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 ? |
| 87 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 88 | 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 . |
| 89 | 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 . |
| 90 | 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 . |