Example sentences of "far [noun sg] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 2 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 3 | Its range includes the coasts of China and India and as far south as the shore of Australia and Tasmania . |
| 4 | More gannets will be arriving daily from winter quarters , which may be as far south as the coastal waters of West Africa and with them will come the great skuas to harry them for food . |
| 5 | It rarely wanders as far south as the British or northern European coasts in winter . |
| 6 | From 1316 when Lancaster 's power was at its height , until 1323 , when Edward once again had full control of the government and the thirteen-year truce was concluded , Scottish forces ravaged northern England almost as far south as the Humber , plundering and impoverishing the clergy no less than the laity of that region . |
| 7 | Pleistocene fossils ascribed to N. lapillus are widely distributed on both sides of the Atlantic , as far south as the Canary Islands ( Talavera , Kardas and Richards , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | Certainly , Oswald was a significant force at least as far south as the upper Thames valley where c . |
| 9 | Hudson Bay , much of the Labrador Sea and the St Lawrence estuary , invests the coasts of Labrador , Greenland , Svalbard , western Alaska and eastern Siberia , closing the northern Bering Sea and filling the Sea of Okhotsk as far south as the Kuril Islands and northern Japan . |
| 10 | On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones . |
| 11 | There were passages to Italy and Greece , various trips to Tunis and Algiers , with calls at a number of smaller North African ports , and there were a number of voyages considerably farther afield to West African ports , mostly small , as far South as the Gulf of Guinea . |
| 12 | Polar bears generally spend most of their lives offshore , on the Arctic ice pack , but occasionally wander as far south as the Arctic coast . |
| 13 | The large geographical database held in the system covers Europe as far east as the Urals . |
| 14 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 15 | Extra-mural ribbon development , accompanied by several short side-streets and lanes , is also visible , probably extending as far east as the winged-corridor complex noted earlier . |
| 16 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |
| 17 | It is found throughout the Amazon and Orinoco basins , and as far north as the Atlantic coast of Central America . |
| 18 | In July 1893 , one was caught as far north as the Firth of Forth . |
| 19 | In the fairly recent zoological past , around 2500 BC , the range of the Asian elephant reached from the Tigris-Euphrates basin to China , at least as far north as the River Yangtze . |
| 20 | He currently lives and teaches in Bogota , but his schooling took him as far north as the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale . |
| 21 | The well developed thermoregulatory adaptations in this unique animal enable it to survive in the north-eastern Atlantic to as far north as the latitude of the Faeroes , and possibly beyond . |
| 22 | Rock-engravings in the Sahara and across north Africa from Egypt to Morocco argue that elephants extended , at least locally , as far north as the Mediterranean during the later Stone Age . |
| 23 | In some winters it extends as far north as the limit of cold Antarctic surface waters , i.e. to the Antarctic Convergence , particularly in the Pacific and Atlantic sectors of the ocean . |
| 24 | O. setosa has been recorded from the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic , as far north as the Bay of Biscay , and south to Angola . |
| 25 | In the west from the West Indies 325–1036 m and as far north as the Labrador basin 198–2888 m ; in the east Atlantic it has been recorded from Southern Iceland , Rockall Trough , south to the Cape Verde Islands with a bathymetric range of 729–3200 m . |
| 26 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
| 27 | They were pursued , some into the Till , where many drowned and some swam to safety — if it was indeed safety , so far into England — on the further side , some as far north as the Tweed and the border , thirteen miles away . |