Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SNP has indeed come a long way since Jim Sillars , as vice-president of the SNP , in a section of his Independence in Europe pamphlet ( June 1989 ) entitled ‘ The David Martin formula ’ , referred to Europe of the regions as a ‘ nebulous concept ’ . |
| 2 | From then on , the walk was far less interesting : we passed the Bishops Wordsworth School Sports Field then came a long dull stretch to The Rose and Crown , that always looked decrepit until renovation in the ‘ thirties . |
| 3 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you 've certainly come a long way from the child who ran from me in that garden . ’ |
| 5 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 6 | We have indeed come a long way from 1882 , and can look forward to the challenge of the 1990s — the closer harmonisation of our concerns with those of other conservation bodies . |
| 7 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 8 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |