Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] since " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Geldof has come a long way since his first single with the Boomtown Rats , a hymn to selfishness called Looking After Number One . |
5 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ The state oil company , PDVSA , has done a tremendous job since nationalisation and is now ranked among the largest and best in the world , ’ he says . |
8 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
9 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |
10 | ‘ She is a grown woman now , she has changed a great deal since she last came to stay with us eight years ago , ’ said Mrs Riddiford after meeting Kylie in her hotel after the concert . |
11 | it 's come a long way since we had Lego . |