Example sentences of "not [adv] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose whatever happened it 's not right Far too these ones are alright . |
| 2 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 3 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 4 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 5 | This is not so far away from saying : Blacks are naturally superior in sports and physical endeavours ; whites are naturally superior at intellectual pursuits . |
| 6 | In the adjoining parishes of Sileby and Seagrave , in mid-Leicestershire , one finds on the map such farm names as Quebec , Belle Isle , Hanover and Bunkers Hill , and New York not so far away , pleasant Georgian red-brick houses with white doorways gleaming across the home meadow . |
| 7 | He was buried in an obscure grave at Blitar in East Java : not so far away from the kingdom of the legendary Kerna . |
| 8 | Joel is n't a Catholic , as you know , but he 's told me that he believes there 's a Providence not so far away from us , really just above our heads if we could see it , that wants things to be the way they 're eventually going . |
| 9 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 10 | She looked like your mother whom you 'd loved , but whom you 'd lost — and while Doreen was near your mother seemed to be not so far away . |
| 11 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 12 | I will be able to bring what is going on here in science back to the children in the classroom , and make them realise that it is not so far away from what they are learning about . |
| 13 | And besides , it occurred to her , there was one huge consolation that she had not so far fully considered … |
| 14 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 15 | But , apart from that , the Ceauşescus , collection of television sets , indeed their domestic arrangements as a whole , were not so far out of line with what any politburo member in the Bloc would have regarded as normal . |
| 16 | Going eastwards into East Sussex , not so far out , mainly Lewes , Newhaven , Brighton area . |
| 17 | You are seeing what is happening in our poor ORIENTAL brother land INDONESIA — DO N'T BE SURPRISED IF THE SAME thing happens in BURMA — SOME DAY — IT IS NOT SO FAR OFF — WE BURMANS AND INDIANS UNITEDLY WILL KICK OUT you blood sucking BRITISHERS AND your GODDAM children the Eurasians — Ho ! |
| 18 | We could n't afford a dance for you — I 've Goldie 's to consider , in four years ’ time , not so far off . |
| 19 | He had an unexpectedly deep voice , as if maturity was not so far off . |
| 20 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 21 | The air quivered , not just far away in a heat haze , but close by me on the parapet , in a kind of vibrating brightness that hurt my eyes . |
| 22 | In the meantime I suspect that the Rugby Union will soon have to acknowledge that they are not nearly far enough down the road with their new registration legislation to have a hope of implementing it on May 1 . |
| 23 | Perhaps it signifies the fact that the poem could apply to anyone in life for we are all at this moment in the process of dying even though presumably not as far forward on our journey as the poet . |
| 24 | ( In the event the estimate of 300 million was not as far out as critics feared . |
| 25 | You 're bound to go a little bit too far or not quite far enough . |
| 26 | It is a ledger , the size and solidity of an old-fashioned accounts book , with broken corners and an air of belonging to that grey period which is too far gone to be new but not yet far enough off to be old . |
| 27 | ‘ See how high up the lights are , not too far apart ? ’ |
| 28 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 29 | We could n't do a thing about it , only get on with our jobs , living from day to day and , being young , looking forward to the day — surely not too far ahead — when things would start moving in our favour again . |
| 30 | Not too far away , I found a street with some shops and , thankfully , a cafe . |