Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even if men 's fashion has come a long way since the Sixties , the overwhelming inspiration , Cerruti concedes , is still the archetypal English businessman 's suit . |
| 9 | We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy , when we thought that the earth was the centre of the universe ! |
| 10 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
| 11 | Well , we 've certainly come a long way since Pliny 's day . |
| 12 | Of course photographic techniques HAVE come a long way since Ponting 's day . |
| 13 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 14 | THE greeting cards , gift wrap and stationery people T&A Thompson Cards have come a long way since it all began for them in a garage about 15 years ago — they have just opened a superb new outlet in the Ravenhill Business Park . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Packaging technology has come a long way since the founder opened his first shop in 1869 , and the requirements of today 's customer are very different from those of the Victorian housewife . |
| 18 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |
| 19 | He had also enjoyed a longer life than his father ; his younger brother Benjamin , to whom we now turn , was not to be so lucky . |
| 20 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 21 | Savory has a longer history than sage , though not considered to be as useful medicinally . |
| 22 | If the English writer stops short of uncritical adulation , and also has a longer memory than the Americans for the loathsome politics that Pound was infected by , that is all to the good . |
| 23 | Visible light has a longer wavelength than UV radiation . |
| 24 | It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue . |
| 25 | The crab has a longer body than the other species shown here , and the legs are flattened and held away from the carapace . |
| 26 | You walk a long way when you go to , across Crackside . |
| 27 | But space doctors still have some problems to overcome before a woman undertakes a longer flight than Savitskaya 's eight-day trip . |
| 28 | A few of us may become angry , but most of us have to be pushed a long way before we abandon our normal passivity . |
| 29 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 30 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |