Example sentences of "come a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 2 | Tank decor has come a long way in recent years from the garish backdrop , and the odd lump of rock with a few dying plants . |
| 3 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 4 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Imaging technology has come a long way in the last few years and there are currently available several Imaging systems which in theory could integrate with Council Tax software . |
| 7 | We have come a long way in this preliminary discussion without saying anything about what actually counts as data in the social sciences . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | DANDELIONS have come a long way in Darlington . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So both groups had come a similar distance in the sense of having the indications that there was something interesting to pursue further . |
| 12 | At some time after 1880 came a turning point in world history . |
| 13 | As Rincewind stared at the crowd , with sensations of prickly horror travelling up his spine , there came a gentle prod in the small of his back . |
| 14 | The company came a long way in the 1980s , but only because the leopard changed its spots by making the transition from selection to search . |
| 15 | This objective was indeed achieved , but with it came a spectacular collapse in crude prices , which lasted from 1985 into the following year , when there were calls from the Gulf states for Britain to cut its North Sea output ‘ as part of a global effort between OPEC and non-OPEC exporters to restabilize the world oil market ’ . |
| 16 | In September 1929 prices began to fall , and then recovered ; but late in October came a further fall in prices which heralded the crash . |
| 17 | You have to sense that coming a little while in advance and if you think someone is going to throw a tantrum , you hold back . |
| 18 | It is to gain authority from the Poetics for his " bourgeois tragedy " ( bürgerliches Trauerspiel ) by arguing that with the reduction in the social standing of the characters of his plays must come a corresponding reduction in the intensity of the emotions displayed by them and the reversals of fortune that they experience . |
| 19 | Sea bream , with shallot and red wine sauce , comes a close second in the restaurant . |