Example sentences of "as far [adv] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 2 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 4 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 5 | Has worked as far afield as the University of Otago [ New Zealand ] . |
| 6 | The flow of people so far visiting the museum is very encouraging , not only local people , but visitors to the town from as far afield as the south coast and Scotland have come . |
| 7 | ‘ You heard of this place from as far afield as the capital city ? |
| 8 | Domestic vines and orchards , in patches of garden overgrown with poppies and clover , straggle as far up as the fortress . |
| 9 | I 've been as far a a places as far apart as the presbytery of erm Annandale and Esdale which is to , what to south of Scotland , erm and I ca n't think of any corresponding place erm in the north but there have been places in the north that I 've also gone to , and this is my donor card . |
| 10 | ‘ Quite adequately , ’ she assured him hastily , and , moving as far away as the seat would allow , looked straight ahead , her spine stiff , her shoulders squared . |
| 11 | The shock of the sinking was felt as far away as the World 's Edge Mountains and is recorded in the chronicles of the Dwarf kings . |
| 12 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |
| 13 | This would imply that the primordial black hole closest to the earth is probably at least as far away as the planet Pluto . |
| 14 | They were in a sailing boat , as far out as the trawler , both of them older , eighteen or nineteen . |
| 15 | I left the aircraft in order to go for de-briefing but I got as far only as the jetty when an attack was made on the Sunderland by three Me109 aircraft . |
| 16 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 17 | Turn back through the pages of ancient history books on Venice and as far back as the year 1740 you will find tell of a friendly hostelry providing a refuge to weary travellers on this hotel 's site . |
| 18 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 19 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 20 | Fellow-feeling between Athens and Corinth , occasioned by Megara , is traceable as far back as the time of the Cypselid tyrant of Corinth , Periander : called on to arbitrate between Athens and Lesbos over the possession of Sigeion on the Hellespont , he awarded it to Athens . |
| 21 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 22 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 23 | ( The fact that the Chinese sign for ‘ father ’ stems from the glyph of a man and a jade adze suggests that a similar notion prevailed in that country as far back as the Shang dynasty . ) |
| 24 | Carryduff will provide fire cover as far down as the ring road , with other stations , including Knock , Central and Cadogan acting as a back-up . |
| 25 | The elderly woman turned her head as far sideways as the basket strap permitted . |