Example sentences of "[noun pl] not far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 2 | Look Clare — look what was here ; fil-filthy mean little houses not far enough apart for the wind to blow between them ; derelict factories with slates slipping off them and armies of rats — not a blade of grass in sight . |
| 3 | They cast their lines not far off-shore , and appeared to take excellent catches of fish . |
| 4 | Whether such , perhaps resulting from crosses with male plants not far away , would have survived competition with those possibly derived from crosses with more distant fathers , in a mixed infructescence is not clear but this example and several others show how unrestrictive certain ‘ syndromes ’ are . |
| 5 | The Turks had invaded the Aden Protectorate from the Yemen and were fighting the British forces not far away at Lahej . |
| 6 | The typical pattern is that one box will show more ticks than any of the others , but there may be one or two further boxes with scores not far behind . |
| 7 | There is Totes not far away on the Dieppe road , and the famous old Hotel des Cygnes where Guy de Maupassant wrote Boule de Suif and where the proprietor appears the very embodiment of Norman robustness . |