come a long way

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Make considerable progress or improvement, as in That's good, Rob—you've certainly come a long way. This usage, which transfers the “distance” of a long way to progress, gained considerable currency in the 1960s and 1970s in an advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes addressed especially to women: “You've come a long way, baby.”

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How to use come a long way in a sentence

In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.
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Meanwhile, in Florida, Bush was flooded with questions about whether gay marriage could possibly come to the Sunshine State.
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These generally come from the outside, from cultural pressures and messages.
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And they might not have to wait that long to show their political heft.
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But there is an underlying feeling that the worst is yet to come.
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It is most peculiar, and when he plays that way, the most bewitching little expression comes over his face.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
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In this way bundles of the plants are easily made, and in most cases these can be readily carried about.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
You would not think it too much to set the whole province in flames so that you could have your way with this wretched child.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini