Example sentences of "has [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | AIR travel has come a long way at Aldergrove since the first wide-eyed civilian passengers flew there 30 years ago . |
| 32 | The industry has come a long way since the day 's of men selling cornets from the back of bicycles . |
| 33 | Whitham has come a long way from April 16 , 1988 when he won the Enkalon 1,000cc race and became one of the few English riders to score at Kirkistown at that time . |
| 34 | Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 . |
| 35 | Tupperware , it seems , has come a long way . |
| 36 | There is no gainsaying the fact that London-born Eleanor Bowen has come a long way since her last exhibition at the Durham Art Gallery some eight years ago . |
| 37 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | It sounds like the Fire Service has come a long way from the early years . |
| 40 | Er psychiatry has come a long way and er certain diagnostic st studies and diagnostic tests are taken of the individual erm and the doctors conclude whether or not the the work contributed to the problem or not . |
| 41 | The former RAF engineer , of Eskdale , Skelmersdale , has come a long way since 1982 when he suffered a serious heart attack and his health then gradually deteriorated to the point where surgeons at Wythenshawe Hospital , Manchester , eventually decided that a heart transplant was Mr Brownrigg 's only chance . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 44 | Another super-domestique of great experience is Sean Yates from Sussex , who has won a long time trial stage in the tour . |
| 45 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |
| 46 | But if a child mutates in a big way , so that it has moved a long distance away from its parent in genetic space , what are the odds of its being better than its parent ? |
| 47 | The Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh also has had a long involvement with the cultivation and development of plants with medicinal properties and we have our own Scottish traditions of herbal cures for a long list of ailments . |
| 48 | Home-grown : Edinburgh 's Royal Botanic Garden also has had a long involvement with the development of plants with medicinal properties |
| 49 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 50 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 51 | Visual art education has had a long tradition of emphasizing the practical , so it was not surprising to find similar sentiments being expressed by the visual art teachers interviewed . |
| 52 | Afghanistan has had a long history of neutrality and non-alignment which Soviet leaders have assiduously fostered . |
| 53 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 54 | As most of you will know , Queens Park has had a long standing partnership with the Baptist Church in Doolay Falls near Wichita , Kansas . |
| 55 | By anyone 's standards Dick Print has had a long innings . |
| 56 | Today 's theme will serve us satisfactorily as a basis for our meditation , because water has had a long association with such images of healing , blessing and anointing . |
| 57 | Joyce Barker has had a long association with Trinity Mill and recalls that the gearing was so light and precise that , even as a child of five , she could easily control the milling process and the sack hoist ! |
| 58 | Ayrshire has had a long association with the aeroplane , mainly centred on Prestwick Airport and the companies which have built aircraft on the site . |
| 59 | Northwich-Winsford in mid-Cheshire has had a long record of stable employment provided by companies like ICI and Foden . |
| 60 | Kapil has advanced a long way since he burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s . |