Example sentences of "[adv] far this " in BNC.
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1 | So far this season , Nicholas has fired only blanks , 13 matches having passed by without him hitting the target . |
2 | Mikhail Shchadov , the Minister for Coal , told the Trud newspaper yesterday that so far this year , deliveries were 18.5 million tonnes less than planned , while 35 million tonnes of mined coal was lying at pitheads for want of freight rolling-stock . |
3 | So far this year our revenues are ahead and still healthy , but they are not what we expected . |
4 | But if this good work is to continue , Springboard needs increased financial support from its patrons and sponsors because the Government 's contribution so far this year is nil . |
5 | The number of ethnic Germans who have arrived so far this year is put at 260,000 . |
6 | Despite the repression , seven protests have been staged so far this year . |
7 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
8 | Lower advertising revenue in some US markets was offset by new publications and there have been more than 40 acquisitions so far this year . |
9 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
10 | Net new investment in unit trusts last month was £339.4million , some 30 per cent higher than the monthly average so far this year . |
11 | So far this year 26 black or Asian officers have left while only 35 have been recruited . |
12 | Trading so far this year is up and the board expects ‘ another year of good growth . ’ |
13 | So far this month 465 deaths , and more than ten times as many suspected cases , have been reported in Zambia , black Africa 's most urbanised country . |
14 | The $1.6 billion that BTR , a British conglomerate , has offered for Norton , an abrasives maker , is the first big hostile takeover bid made in America so far this year . |
15 | He says that the airline and motor industries have seen their worst , that semiconductor orders are rising ( IBM 's share price is up by 10% so far this year ) , and prices of metals such as aluminium and copper have rallied . |
16 | So far this has not happened . |
17 | Hindus have long fled the rural parts of Punjab ; now some Sikhs are joining the exodus , disgusted by terrorist excesses that led to 3,787 deaths last year and about 1,500 so far this year . |
18 | Significantly , instances of people committing the criminal offence of being ‘ drunk and incapable ’ in Glasgow 's streets have fallen slightly so far this year compared to last . |
19 | But so far this had never happened — always , it was straight into her arms , no matter who was present , and all the hugs and kisses in the world most fervently given . |
20 | Better news for Challenge Cup finalists Castleford is that Graham Steadman , who has scored 30 tries so far this season , has recovered from a rib injury and is likely to return against Halifax on Sunday . |
21 | Margaret McLaren , Britannia Life 's American investments manager responsible for their top-performing £15m fund , said : ‘ We still look favourably on the American market which generally rises in an election year but is down so far this year . |
22 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
23 | American Express said it had received about 100 complaints so far this year from card members who had booked accommodation — only fly-cruises in the Bahamas — some for as little as £99.50 — and who had been unable to board ship . |
24 | American Express said it had received about 100 complaints so far this year from card members who had booked accommodation — only fly-cruises in the Bahamas — some for as little as £99.50 — and who had been unable to board ship . |
25 | So far this season , Phelioff and Qannaas have met twice at Tweseldown . |
26 | British Telecom has pioneered in this area with its Prestel service , but so far this has appealed mainly to business customers . |
27 | So far this has been confined to states with lifetimes longer than about one millisecond ( ’ isomeric ’ states ) but experiments are under way to study excited slates in nuclei with lifetimes as short as microseconds . |
28 | Since 205 of those have been sold in the UK so far this year , the Brooklands is no shot in the dark . |
29 | So far this has taken nearly three billion years of slow evolution , occasionally fuelled by a flurry of faster change . |
30 | More bodies of street children — over 200 so far this year — are found in a stagnant ditch in a place called Nove Gerusaleme ; killed by extermination squads paid by city businesses that believe they frighten away the tourists . |