Example sentences of "not far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The automobile has turned the city inside out , ranging new communities around the periphery and letting the centre rot : not far from the centre is an old slum district where the gangs operate . |
| 2 | ‘ In the morning they found him dead , face down on a bare spot , not far from the town . |
| 3 | But telescope not far away too . |
| 4 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 5 | He broke off to applaud a little ball striking a boundary rope not far from us . |
| 6 | I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot . |
| 7 | Not far away is the village of Buis les Baronnies , dominated by a steep hill topped by a spectacular blade of rock similar to those of the Dentelles . |
| 8 | On Skye during the summer of 1990 , I visited a bothy not far from the Cuillins to find certain people staying two weeks ( fishing ) , one week ( canoeing ) and no room at the inn for overnighters . |
| 9 | There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap . |
| 10 | More than 250 delegates from 19 countries are at the Cranfield international emergency management conference at Castle Donington , near Loughborough — not far from the scene of the Kegworth crash in January . |
| 11 | Nearly 40 years ago these two were trading bullets over the river Potong-Gang , and sometimes it is not far short of hostilities when they trade shots on the pitch . |
| 12 | A century ago Scheveningen was a place of painters as much as of fishermen , and not far off the tram route you can still see exactly what the artists saw . |
| 13 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 14 | This is our forward area and the Germans are not far off . ’ |
| 15 | After all , the Germans were still not far off . |
| 16 | Newspapers were not far behind with an Average score of 5.3. party Election Broadcasts on TV and radio scored 5.1 . |
| 17 | Even Ivanovka , the only village not far from the Moscow railway line , had received its last single copy of a newspaper some months prior to Yakovlev 's visit . |
| 18 | Lenin knew the Middle Volga better than any other leader , for he was born in Simbirsk , not far up river from Samara , had studied at Kazan ’ university , and been a barrister in Samara . |
| 19 | Not far away is the Slovenský Raj National Park — translated it 's Slovak Paradise . |
| 20 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 21 | In many areas , then , the Thatcher government in the period 1979–83 was not far removed in many respects from the post-war outlook of the kind familiar to British experience since 1945 . |
| 22 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 23 | In the same year he won a scholarship at Repton not far from Derby . |
| 24 | At the house of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd not far from Magdalene College was one of the remarkable Knox brothers , Wilfred . |
| 25 | Michael saw that his brother 's mind had moved — not far , hardly at ail , but still he had moved . |
| 26 | Joan and Michael Ramsey moved to a house in Newnham , not far from where he lodged when he was vicar of St Benet 's eleven years before : 3 Wordsworth Grove . |
| 27 | At the end of the war my neighbour Mrs Cooper was young Giovanna Boccalon , growing up in Pasiano , an Italian village not far from Treviso . |
| 28 | There was a big park with a lake not far from the hospital . |
| 29 | There 's this flower shop not far from the house , and I go there and buy summat every week . |
| 30 | Many men will leave the aircraft with weights not far short of their own body weight ; almost all of this kit will be essential to carry out the soldiers ' tasks . |