Example sentences of "and not far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You can take a day trip to visit Wanlockhead , the highest village in Scotland , with its Museum of Lead Mining , where you can visit an underground mine gallery , and not far away , Drumlanrig Castle , the magnificent 17th-century home of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury . |
| 3 | A few years before and not far away , the abbey of Quarr , on the Isle of Wight , had been licensed to crenellate its buildings . |
| 4 | One sees huge deposits , such as the high cliffs of gravel around Embrun in the French Alps , and not far away , the heap of great boulders at Claps de Luc , where half a mountain fell into the valley of the Drome one wet afternoon in 1442 ( plate 5.2 ) . |
| 5 | There 's Prince Charles estate at Highgrove house near Tetbury , Princess Anne 's home at Gatcombe Park , and not far away , the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent 's house at Nether Lypiatt . |
| 6 | There are no elevating thoughts about money , all the emotions aroused by it are bad ; pride and miserliness and greed are quickly followed by fear of losing the money , and not far behind is likely to be the emotion of jealously because money is a relative thing and seldom does a rich man not find someone still richer to be jealous of . |