Example sentences of "not far " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the British Army Training Unit Suffield ( BATUS ) , not far from Calgary in western Canada , a detachment of twenty-five men from 6 Armoured Workshop 's Forward Repair Group ( FRG ) is being kept busy looking after the 17/ 2lst Lancers battlegroup engaged in Exercise Gazala , the climax of their live firing exercises . |
| 32 | They had then moved once more east , in the early hours of yesterday morning , to their present location not far short of the Inner German Border . |
| 33 | To reach East Berlin they must cross through Checkpoint Charlie , not far from their outpost . |
| 34 | Gatow Ranges are adjacent to the Wire , not far from Berlin 's Royal Air Force Station . |
| 35 | A hide designed with their needs in mind can be found not far from the car park , and a concrete ramp allows easy access . |
| 36 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 37 | It was a few miles outside the pretty market town of Tetbury in Gloucestershire ; two hours from London down the M4 motorway , with easy access to Wales and the West Country ; close to Princess Anne 's house , Gatcombe Park ; his friends , the ParkerBowles ; and not far from Windsor . |
| 38 | Even Bulgaria is not far behind . |
| 39 | ‘ In a side street , not far from the burning Palace of Justice , yet out of the way , stood a man , sharply distinguished from the crowd , flailing his hands in the air and moaning over and over again : ‘ The files are burning ! |
| 40 | LOST AMONG apple orchards and water meadows beside the River Stour not far from Shaftesbury lies the well settled hamlet of Hammoon . |
| 41 | Denis Taylor : ‘ We decided we were going to have a new singer and hold auditions , the idea being that we would go to the old club we used to play in called La Discothéque , which was in Wardour Street , not far from the Whiskey-a-GoGo . |
| 42 | ‘ Dinner ‘ s not far . ’ |
| 43 | The second key piece of information was that Angela Morgan 's car had been found in North Kensington , not far from her flat , and was now cordoned off and being crawled over inch by inch by a forensic team hastily dispatched by Davidson . |
| 44 | Most of Britain 's dependent peoples saw the presence of British troops close by , and not far away in the United Kingdom , as the assurance they needed of continuing British protection . |
| 45 | If the situation continues unchallenged , not only will local populations of rare dolphins be wiped out , but the threat of extinction looms not far behind . |
| 46 | America was not far behind , with total mortgage debt equivalent to 45% of GDP in 1989 . |
| 47 | By contrast , forecasts TRC , a British consultant , East European spending on equipment ( including Russia 's ) could double to $30 billion by 2000 , not far behind that of America 's . |
| 48 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed on March 20th at 2,739 , not far below its all-time high of 2,810 on January 2 1990 , and well above this year 's low of 2,553 . |
| 49 | Germany still has the world 's most expensive industrial electricity , with Italy not far behind . |
| 50 | That same evening , in a town not far from Salvador , police repelled an assault on the local jail by a mob of 300 people who were planning summary justice for a prisoner accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl . |
| 51 | Amoco , not far behind , rose 72% to $803m . |
| 52 | Athletics is not far behind . |
| 53 | The stone fell very short , landing not far from his hiding-place . |
| 54 | His Dad worked not far away . |
| 55 | ‘ Not far now , ’ said Mrs Wright . |
| 56 | Last year one had come down not far from Little Knoll . |
| 57 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 58 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 59 | His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five . |
| 60 | In Goettingen , not far from the Brocken , the brothers Grimm were polishing their folk-tales , which brought a new frisson — even in refined translation — to many Victorian nurseries . |