Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had come a long way since his early days as a security guard with a small outfit , had climbed with Buckmaster . |
| 32 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | In the event , the announcement was premature ; but fusion researchers have come a long way since then |
| 35 | Of course , it 's come a long way since then — full colour on every page , two Megatapes each month . |
| 36 | We have come a long way since then , and one of the greatest stresses in the world today is loneliness . |
| 37 | H'eye tech — mascara is the one make-up item few women would be without and we 've come a long way since the days of mascaras that smudged or flaked around the eyes . |
| 38 | ‘ Eric has come a long way since then , ’ said McAllister . |
| 39 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 40 | Western Europe had come a long way since 1945 . |
| 41 | And while the original Ethernet spec was a lowest-common-denominator approach , using the crudest cable and a distinctly modest data rate , things have come a long way since then . |
| 42 | 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 , . |
| 43 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | We have come a long way since then , thanks to the vast amount of public investment over the last century . |
| 46 | Spices certainly have come a long way since their early days , when they were a rare commodity and it was considered an honour to receive them as a gift . |
| 47 | We have come a long way since then , writes Dr David Breeze , Chief Inspector of Ancient Monuments . |
| 48 | But I have come a long way since then |
| 49 | The CNAA had come a long way since 1964 : ‘ from being a shy bureaucracy it has become an important and an innovatory force in higher education ’ . |
| 50 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 51 | He 's come a long way since then — but underneath he 's still the same determined , death-defying Barry Sheene . |
| 52 | Jamie Whitham : has come a long way since Kirkistown back in 1988 . |
| 53 | ‘ We demonstrated that we have come a long way since our first game in Zimbabwe . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Mr Fallon said : ‘ The Dyslexia Institute has come a long way since 1973 and has raised the profile of dyslexia in the country . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | Simulators have come a long way in recent years and today many of them use screen addressing to update the information . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | It has come a long way in the last decade . |
| 60 | You 've come a long way in a short time . ’ |