Example sentences of "has come a long [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 .
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