Example sentences of "to know how far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not easy to know how far Kafka 's fictions can be thought to answer descriptively to the historical realities of his time , let alone to those which his fictions are often thought to have predicted . |
| 2 | And it is not easy to know how far Kapuscinski 's book is a book about a bygone Ethiopia . |
| 3 | And we want to know how far is it between Carlisle and Glasgow , between Manchester and Glasgow and between Euston and Glasgow . |
| 4 | It is always very difficult , in dealing with the relationship between past events and contemporary policies , to know how far back to go in time . |
| 5 | It is impossible to know how far Lothar 's own personal interests and inclinations determined general policy , but the proceedings of the great general council of the Lateran which was to be held near the end of the pontificate were well in line with what he and others had absorbed on pastoral care at Paris in the last quarter of the twelfth century . |
| 6 | However before we embark on that , there are two outstanding matters which were raised yesterday a and I 'd just like to know how far erm progress has been made in dealing with those and one was the erm definition as far as it can be made of what is meant by the Greater York area . |
| 7 | It is difficult to know how far they were a significant deterrent to claiming relief , but over the long term there is little to suggest that any parish maintained the lowering of its poor rate which sometimes accompanied the initial operation of a workhouse . |