Example sentences of "[prep] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 2 | The matters first raised in Committee will be discussed further in the general election , as we move towards far larger constitutional changes . |
| 3 | One memory will certainly be of the running of far more steam trains than seemed possible in the seventies , not all of them successful … |
| 4 | The layman usually thinks of passenger traffic first , and freight second , but the latter is usually of far greater importance , and Russia was no exception . |
| 5 | Clearly , games can be devised that are tests of far more subtle strategies and complex manoeuvres . |
| 6 | Wood 's match was of far higher quality , and although the Briton lost 3-6 , 7-6 , 6-3 to Amy Frazier she came within three points of defeating an opponent ranked 33 in the world . |
| 7 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 8 | Dawson and Slooten discovered that these nylon monofilament gill-nets , up to 3000 metres ( 9750 feet ) in length , were responsible for the deaths of far more dolphins than had ever been officially reported , and that the local dolphin population was in fact declining rapidly . |
| 9 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 10 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 11 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 12 | The frank accounts of two early love affairs , adding some notoriety to a political autobiography , make honest and sympathetic reading ; but of far greater substance is his analysis of British politics from Wilson to Major . |
| 13 | Mr Major said that plans for devolved Scottish , Welsh and regional assemblies , combined with moves to a federal Europe and an end to the first-past-the-post voting system , were ‘ of far greater importance than the general election itself ’ . |
| 14 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 15 | His strength was his obsessive single-mindedness , his refusal to be diverted by what at that moment were secondary issues ( even though they might be issues of far greater importance in the medium or long term ) . |
| 16 | So far as Balfour was concerned , Zionism was ‘ of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land [ of Palestine ] ’ . |
| 17 | Of far greater significance than the Islamic resurgence , however , was the rise of ‘ the popular movement ’ . |
| 18 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 19 | When Stan retired , he settled in Dornoch , the market town of Sutherland , close to excellent facilities , shopping and medical services ; but of far greater importance , within an easy hour 's drive of Scourie . |
| 20 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |
| 21 | But of far more use to the company is strategic market research which explicitly identifies the actions the company needs to take in order to achieve a position in a market . |
| 22 | All studies of the economic costs of corporate crime agree that individuals are deprived of far more money by such crime than by the more conventional crimes of robbery and theft . |
| 23 | The ability to observe is of far greater importance and is readily enhanced by practice . |
| 24 | For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used . |
| 25 | If , however , the service is seen as a social institution , with aims which were , to a large extent , independent of market organization , then it is possible to see it as much more successful and of far greater significance . |
| 26 | But whereas suppliers of logic devices under defence contracts , such as Ferranti , are accustomed to meet demands that their equipment withstand paralysing fields of 40 to 100 volts/metre , many makers of standard industrial hardware are ill-equipped to cope with the hazards of far weaker fields . |
| 27 | Of far greater sociological value are the highly-readable studies by John and Elizabeth Newson . |
| 28 | Companies , it is claimed , will put their energies into short-term performance and the payment of high dividends in order to maintain the value of their stock exchange listing , at the cost of long term planning and investment that would ultimately be of far greater benefit for the company , its investors and the economy as a whole . |
| 29 | In theory , and ( with due allowance for the uncertainties involved ) in practice too , this approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in so many corporate accounts . |
| 30 | This approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in many corporate accounts |