Example sentences of "[pers pn] have come a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century .
32 We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments .
33 We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences .
34 We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic .
35 ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe .
36 Liz Brookes , from the Dyslexia Institute , said : ‘ We have come a long way during the last year and progress is being made , but it is not enough .
37 The Liberal Democrat 's leaflet contains the customary barefaced lie : ‘ In the last four elections , local and national , we have come a good second . ’
38 They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks !
39 They had come a long way from a meeting in the very early days when Sunil Desai , Jayaben 's son and then secretary of the strike committee , had suggested that the men do the picketing and the women make the tea .
40 They had come a long way very fast .
41 Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house .
42 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 .
43 He has come a long way from the rough-edged , bearded Glaswegian to the rich , Hollywood smoothie , all tan and haircut .
44 Either way he has come a long way in a very short time , especially for someone who left journalism for PR at the age of 22 after failing to break into daily newspapers .
45 It has come a long way in the last decade .
46 If only it had come a few years earlier .
47 He had come a long way , he believed , since the Speaker paper ( October 1897 ) , ‘ Shadows of the Hills ’ .
48 He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster .
49 He had come a long way with the Elder , as had his family from time immemorial .
50 He had come a long way .
51 He had come a long way from there to this home in Ireland .
52 Bazin , 60 , a former World Bank economist , had been the candidate of the right-wing Movement for the Establishment of Democracy in Haiti ( MIDH ) in the presidential elections of December 1990 [ see pp. 37911-12 ] , when he had come a distant second behind Aristide .
53 It was then , and still is now , very much an island holiday paradise , but it 's come a long way from what were fairly basic beginnings and in addition to natural beauty can now offer resorts as modern and sophisticated as anywhere else in the Med .
54 Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month .
55 It 's come a long way
56 it 's come a long way since we had Lego .
57 He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene .
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