Example sentences of "was [not/n't] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Beadle , Beatrice 's neighbour , tells many stories of Modigliani , full of drink and drugs , quarrelling , when he was in the garden with Beatrice innocently discussing the plants ; of Modigliani walking in the cemetery because ‘ death was not far off ’ ( ‘ Would n't it be magnificent ’ , he said to Beadle , if we could contemplate our own skeletons ? ’ ) ; of Modigliani reciting Lautréamont beside the graves , hungry for drugs , suspecting all Beatrice 's male friends . |
| 2 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 3 | The Romantic ideal of the free artist , creating from inner conviction , was not far off , but for Mozart it had not yet arrived . |
| 4 | Mary had long ago disappeared but he knew — and was comforted in knowing — that she was not far off : he knew he would have the time to approach her : and on this occasion , he wanted to be sure to get her . |
| 5 | It was not far enough , as there was still downward straggle , so we moved further up the ladder to cubes . |
| 6 | His description of the aircraft was not far out ; John Pain reported : ‘ By the time we left , aircraft were being repaired with dope-painted linen or cloth from anywhere and metal repairs were made with the aid of Players 50s tins . |
| 7 | America was not far behind , with total mortgage debt equivalent to 45% of GDP in 1989 . |
| 8 | Britain was not far behind . |
| 9 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 10 | Where there was trouble , usually Mandy was not far behind . |
| 11 | And we shall get a clearer idea of the time of death when Dr. Blain-Thomson has done the P.M. But judging from the state of rigor , Dr. Kerrison was n't far out . |
| 12 | Mm it might be fashionable but phoo Incidentally I was n't far out with th the age of our friend across the road was I ? |
| 13 | It was n't exactly square on to the place where Sal 's Golf had gone for a roll , but it was n't far off . |
| 14 | He kept out the challenge of the New Zealander Matt Brick who was n't far behind . |
| 15 | The Champion steeplechaser was leading the field as usual … but his new found friend was n't far behind . |
| 16 | Martin Ling was n't far behind . |