Example sentences of "[vb -s] come a long [noun sg] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 2 | MacMillan has come a long way since 1963 but Hermanas can still grip when done as well as this . |
| 3 | Microscopy has come a long way since the 1670s when Antonie van Leewenhoek used his relatively crude instruments to see for the first time the bacteria that inhabit worlds normally hidden from the naked eye . |
| 4 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 5 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 6 | For example , supposing you want to refer to the fact that the groom is a medical student and you have a story about a king dying in the Middle Ages who says the physician has killed him , tell this story but end it , ‘ Of course medicine has come a long way since those days , . |
| 7 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 8 | The modern legal aid scheme , which provides financial assistance ( subject to eligibility ) in connection with proceedings in most of our civil courts , has come a long way since 1495 when statute provided for poor people , at the discretion of the Lord Chancellor , to sue without payment to the Crown , and to have lawyers assigned to them without fee . |
| 9 | Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 14 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |