Example sentences of "go [adv prt] as far as the " in BNC.

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1 The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin .
2 In a review of studies on the ability of the older worker to learn , going back as far as the 1920s , it was concluded that changes in learning ability with age are generally small .
3 He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day .
4 Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration .
5 The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century .
6 These divisions run very deep and go back as far as the available documents provide information on such matters .
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