Example sentences of "a long way [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Social Democrats have come a long way since the early 1980s when , newly tossed into opposition , the party was crippled by defeatism . |
| 2 | Our cosmetics and toiletries have come a long way since the days when Elizabeth I used highly toxic lead powder to whiten and enhance her complexion ! |
| 3 | The humble fryer has come a long way since the days when it was little more than a heating element and a thermostat . |
| 4 | Fainting goats have come a long way since the days when farmers used them as decoys to protect herds of sheep from coyotes ( coyote arrives ; goat faints and is devoured ; sheep escape ) . |
| 5 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | BED and Breakfast has come a long way since the days when fearsome dragon landladies belched fire and brimstone over their terrified guests . |
| 9 | Curtain hardware has come a long way since the days of the narrow brass rod and rings . |
| 10 | We have come a long way since the days of the ice cream van and the Medau tunic . |
| 11 | The sound had seemed to come from a long way over the heath to the right . |
| 12 | In fact I thought the whole fairy-palace effect was a long way over the top and painfully unoriginal . |
| 13 | It 's a long way through the massive forests of larch and pine to Novosibirsk , especially if your travelling companion only grunts as he downs another tumbler of cheap vodka . |
| 14 | The package , worth 6 per cent more than the previous year 's assistance , went a long way towards the $9,200 million required by India to meet an expected current-account deficit of $6,000 million and debt repayments of $3,200 million . |
| 15 | The Principal responded initially by agreeing to redesignate courses as full-time , and explaining that the Academic Board had come into existence after departments had been constructed to match DipTech requirements , but had in fact gone a long way towards the Council 's view — further than the report on the June quinquennial visit had acknowledged . |
| 16 | Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner . |
| 17 | We are talking of them being competitive a long way down the road . ’ |
| 18 | PLANTS should come a long way down the list of priorities for the novice gardener . |
| 19 | At present they ‘ share ’ the offence of indecent assault with many minor forms of misconduct , such as giving an unwanted kiss or fondling clothes being worn by someone else , for which the penalty is likely to be a long way down the scale . |
| 20 | In the never-never land of unreal prices , widespread subsidies and easy bank loans , using resources efficiently to make profits comes a long way down the list of priorities . |
| 21 | Zambian broadcasters found themselves a long way down the civil service hierarchy and were accordingly poorly paid , some earning the meagre salary of a junior clerk ; certain technical studio operators received little more than messengers did . |
| 22 | If you keep him quiet you are a long way down the road to achieving some success at Leeds . |
| 23 | The ‘ cat in the hat ’ effort that will see the Macintosh environment on other RISC processors , appears to be a different effort again , and may be a long way down the road , licensing issues aside . |
| 24 | The ‘ cat in the hat ’ effort that will see the Macintosh environment on other RISC processors , appears to be a different effort again , and may be a long way down the road , licensing issues aside . |
| 25 | Products are a long way down the line . |
| 26 | No , oh no , certainly not , but , but I mean before we get to the prescriptive level which is quite er a , a long way down the road , at the analytic level I think , I think Anne-Marie 's point is she 's trying to understand erm just what the the significances of these difference in parental investment are . |
| 27 | If we were to decriminalize drug taking we would probably go a long way down the road to solving the problem . |
| 28 | And then there 's a , a series of er oh and they add er er during the people 's governments or at or above the may in accordance with the local land agency set apart certain land bound to be nationalized and used for the establishment of experimental farms or one or more county 's or model state farms , so there 's provision for the creation of so a form of socialism over the countryside but it 's , it comes a long way down the list . |
| 29 | A fully integrated policy 's a long way down the road |
| 30 | The truth is , if we were looking for people to blame for the fact that the once-great club are now Division Three favourites , referee Brian Coddington would come a long way down the list . |