Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mail for villages as far afield as Langtoft and Boynton came by post train from Hull , was dropped at Lowthorpe station at 7 am and then brought by horse and cart to the post office at Lowthorpe . |
| 2 | Many men will leave the aircraft with weights not far short of their own body weight ; almost all of this kit will be essential to carry out the soldiers ' tasks . |
| 3 | In order to do this we will need to know your preferences as regards the alternative structures which are being suggested by the various parties in discussions so far . |
| 4 | In France and Germany only representatives of parties are elected , not individuals , and this difference in constitutional theory makes individual action by politicians there far more difficult that it is in Westminster . |
| 5 | It has been used for a wide variety of projects so far . |
| 6 | encourage movement in your opponent 's position by : summarizing the course of negotiations so far , suggesting that the time has come for mutual concessions suggesting a new position which represents a different point of departure for both parties linking two or more issues since ‘ it might help us get nearer a settlement ’ suggesting an adjournment indicating the exact area to which you want your opponent to pay attention |
| 7 | Last year 's activities included explanatory talks , simple construction projects , radio fox hunting , Morse instruction , radio operating with contacts as far away as Australia , USA and Japan , including opportunities for attendees to chat to the overseas operators , and experiments with a kite antenna . |
| 8 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 9 | Our aim is to minimise the inconvenience of delays so far as possible . |
| 10 | The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school . |
| 11 | IBM has paid out $3.63 in dividends so far this year , and cutting out the fourth quarter payout altogether would save it a very welcome $680m or so . |
| 12 | The RIC offered a model of colonial policing and in fact many officers from forces as far afield as Kenya , Jamaica and Canada were trained at its headquarters in Dublin . |
| 13 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 14 | Taken from 190 miles above , the film shows pollution in rivers and oceans , the extent of rainforest destruction from burning and major silt damage in rivers as far apart as the Mississippi , the Yangtze and the Betsiboka in Madagascar . |
| 15 | My complaint about reviews so far is that everyone is reviewing the man Larkin and not the biography of him . |
| 16 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 17 | Pete lived with his Mum at the top of a big block of flats not far from the shops . |
| 18 | Returning to the main cavern at a dead run , Ace threw herself to the side as a cluster of boxes not far off exploded with a sharp blast , hurling several of the defenders into he oily waters . |
| 19 | The deal , released yesterday , will boost Tory election prospects in seats as far apart as Preston , Lancashire , where British Aerospace build Tornado bombers , Brough on Humberside , where Hawk trainers are built , Southampton where Vosper 's build minesweepers , and Yeovil in Somerset , the home of Westland helicopters — all expected to be part of the arms package . |
| 20 | Umpire David Archer , in his 28th Test , was following the flight of the ball and could not give the decision , obvious by instant TV replay to viewers as far away as Johannesburg and London and , more pertinently , to reserve umpire Lloyd Barker and match referee Raman Subba Row in the pavilion . |
| 21 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 22 | This would appear to be the end of the road for transsexuals as far as the law is concerned . |
| 23 | This is not a satisfactory state of affairs as far as a religion is concerned , and when this condition is reached it is in decline . |
| 24 | He I do , and , ah he 's talking about bags in drawers so far , so that 's alright . |
| 25 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 26 | There were exports , as early as the late fourteenth century , from Newcastle and Durham to places as far as Danzig , although Flanders and the Northern Netherlands were more common destinations . |
| 27 | The table shows the latest numbers for contributions so far , set roughly against ability to pay and interest in the Gulf measured by reliance on imported oil . |
| 28 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
| 29 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 30 | If more output is obtained from the same manpower — which it is here contended could and should happen — then the allocation of resources so far as manpower is concerned will be unaffected . |