Example sentences of "[adv] travel far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 2 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 3 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 4 | Despite the view that southern England must have been emptied by trekkers to the coalfields of the north , migrants did not travel far . |
| 5 | These short waves can not travel far because they bounce off even small objects . |
| 6 | Such high frequencies can not travel far because they are rapidly absorbed by floorboards , undergrowth , or even by the air itself , particularly if it is foggy or misty . |
| 7 | In Strombolian eruptions , the red-hot fragments of lava that are hurled out of the vent are usually fairly plastic , smallish , and do n't travel far . |
| 8 | The studies that have been undertaken on early Anglo-Saxon pottery emphasise that , unlike the more exotic materials discussed above , it rarely travelled far from a clay source to the point of consumption , regardless of whether it was for funerary or domestic purposes ; some classes of funerary pottery may have been transported further . |