Example sentences of "[vb base] come [art] long [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You 've come a long way for a late-night drink . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We 've come a long way from the free-standing stove with four burners and an oven with maybe a separate grill or broiler . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 7 | You 've come a long way from Manchester to deal with that . |
| 8 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 9 | But , ’ he continued seriously , ‘ I do see danger for you and I also feel sorry , as you have come a long way for nothing . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 15 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 16 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 19 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 20 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 21 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 22 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 23 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 24 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 25 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 26 | Douglas McIldoon , of the EC , said : ‘ This document demonstrates that you have come a long way in this region and it will give us great pleasure in working with you to make it happen . ’ |
| 27 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Inspirals have come a long way from 1989 's full-tilt three-minute organ romp early days . |
| 30 | 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 . |