Example sentences of "[be] [prep] far the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in our field we 're we 're by far the biggest and the best in in terms of support and finance . |
| 2 | Research has shown the method to be by far the most effective disciplinary technique to use in situations of defiance and ( as often occurs ) the ensuing aggression . |
| 3 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 4 | There is no special dispensation for accountants , but if the firm could obtain its own individual dispensation , this would be by far the best solution . |
| 5 | A nearly zero value , however , will be by far the most probable . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 7 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 8 | While employee numbers will be reduced , United Distillers will remain a major employer in the Scotch whisk I industry with around 4,500 employees in Scotland , and will continue to be by far the industry 's largest producer . |
| 9 | The inventory of the shop shows that Martin made recorders ( flutes ) , bassoons , musettes and transverse flutes , the flute-type instruments being by far the most numerous . |
| 10 | Her legs were by far the worst , though — just supporting her own body weight could break them . |
| 11 | The years 1544 and 1545 were to see a number of English invasions , of which those of May 1544 and the autumn of 1545 — timed for the destruction of the harvest — were by far the worst . |
| 12 | The Conference leaders were by far the more accomplished side in front of a crowd of 5,443 — their best of the season . |
| 13 | Sheep were by far the most common livestock . |
| 14 | Touching and fondling were by far the most common complaints . |
| 15 | The haplochromines were also extremely numerous ; indeed , they were by far the principal biomass of Lake Victoria . |
| 16 | Both sides made use of bows , though the Moslems were by far the more proficient in their use . |
| 17 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 18 | ‘ We were by far the second best . |
| 19 | Kittiwakes were by far the most numerous of the gulls , nesting in huge noisy colonies on precipitous cliffs , while glaucous gulls with their all pale wing-tips replaced the herring gulls and black-backs I had become used to seeing in Shetland . |
| 20 | Their conclusion was that despite the large number of variables considered by the studies , the traditional variables of word difficulty and sentence difficulty were by far the most important . |
| 21 | The higher the father 's status , the greater the child 's chance of attending a grammar rather than a secondary modern school , though the occupational group ‘ skilled manual workers ’ was so large that their children were by far the largest single group in all types of school . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Democrats were by far the most supportive . |
| 23 | Overseas guests , speakers and chaplain are an absolute must , as they were by far the most successful part of the conference . |
| 24 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 25 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 26 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 27 | ‘ She 's by far the biggest influence on my writing , ’ affirms Emily . |
| 28 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |
| 29 | I know Macca comes in for a lot of stick from certain members but he 's by far the classiest midfielder in the country and a damm sight better than alot of the so called european geniuses . |
| 30 | Some say it 's by far the more challenging of the two . |