Example sentences of "come a long " in BNC.
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31 | Mota had already come a long way since her schooldays when she ran away with the city , area and national cross-country championships . |
32 | 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 . |
33 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
34 | 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 . |
35 | 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 . |
36 | ‘ We 've come a long way since the U.2 fiasco . ’ |
37 | 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 . |
38 | He quietly looked into solving his problems , he got some treatment and really has come a long way . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | It 's certainly come a long way from the upstairs room at the Albert . |
41 | 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 . |
42 | He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial . |
43 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
44 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
45 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
46 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
47 | 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 . |
48 | 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 . |
49 | 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 . |
50 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
51 | Man had come a long , long way from his hominoid ancestry . |
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 . |