Example sentences of "come a [adv] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come a very long way in the decade since his wife had failed to win a Belfast Corporation seat ! |
| 2 | Well Ivan has brought along this harp which is actually an Irish harp which has come a very long way . |
| 3 | He 's come a very long way to see what you 've got to say as well as hear the stories . |
| 4 | She would be falsely modest not to acknowledge the fact that she had come a very long way since those days when she had been a thin , gawky adolescent . |
| 5 | England seem to have come an awfully long way simply to discover that it 's a small world , and the Irish did not need reminding about Murphy 's Law . |
| 6 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |