Example sentences of "not so far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I see so I 'm not really will make sure that erm that we are kept in touch so that we are not so far down the track but they ca n't be reversed committee as a whole |
| 2 | The King was already there , with half the court and the Mamelukes ; and a tent , shivering in the wind , had been set up but was not so far in use . |
| 3 | Agnew 's are not so far in receipt of any offer for it . |
| 4 | There have been ugly outbreaks in the other townships , but not so far in Harare . |
| 5 | So he jumped astride a tractor and was being driven at maximum speed when he was told by somebody landing one of his aircraft alongside " You are not so far in advance of Rommel 's recce tanks " . |
| 6 | Eros is , after all , not so far from Agape in the pantheon of the heart . |
| 7 | Whether or not we accept Eliot 's note that the title of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ draws on both Kipling 's ‘ The Broken Men ’ and Morris 's ‘ The Hollow Land ’ , there is little doubt that this ‘ valley of dying stars ’ is not so far from the landscapes of Victorian romanticism . |
| 8 | Doses and lengths of exposure time were high but ‘ not so far from the levels to which some people are exposed , particularly in the workplace ’ . |
| 9 | By and large , however , shrub roses are not so far from their natural origins and include many that are perpetual or recurrent flowering . |
| 10 | There was Moscow , the great military parade , the pride of the Soviet Union trooping in front of them and his father pointing to a man , not so far from them , a man with a big moustache and dark eyes . |
| 11 | ‘ Not so far from the truth . |
| 12 | We 're not so far from the border . |
| 13 | Henry Mansel the philosopher-theologian after all published in 1858 The Limits of Religious Thought arguing that we can know almost nothing positive about God ; this God is not so far from Tyndall 's inscrutable Power . |
| 14 | ‘ Talisker is not so far from Merkadale , and it is the largest population centre in Minginish . |
| 15 | Mixing paints is not so far from the pre-Mendelian vision of heredity , and even today popular culture frequently expresses heredity in terms of a mixing of ‘ bloods ’ . |
| 16 | The Bishop 's Castle Railway was not in Wales , but just over the border , not so far from it , was another fascinating rural railway . |
| 17 | Not so far from the Bishop 's Castle Railway another standard gauge branch line ran between Abermule and Kerry . |
| 18 | Those of us who are not so far from the notable Sugar Loaf Summit on the Central Wales Line ( Heart of Wales ) will recall this example of a Staff Halt . |
| 19 | All I know for definite is he lives down in Armagh , not so far from Newry , in the hills . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 21 | Isambard was taking it for granted , it seemed , that a boy of fifteen could easily be seduced into giving his confidence , or at least some incautious fringes of it , to companions not so far from his own age and under orders to ingratiate themselves with him . |
| 22 | And although we 're not so far from here cos we 're this is Newton Road and the next town on er village on is Newton Bromswell . |
| 23 | Although with the building of the railways its share reached a third ( 35 per cent in 1841 – 60 ) , the 1760 – 1820 contribution was equal to that in manufacturing and trade in 1761 – 90 , and not so far behind it , or agriculture , in 1791 – 1820 . |