Example sentences of "not far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones , my old PE teacher , had advised me to join an athletics club , so I went to West London Stadium , not far up from the old White City and adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . |
| 2 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 3 | Other pictures took the place of these ; Neil 's tent , not far up the brae , and the possibility not only , at worst , of having its shelter for the night , but of my seeing from that vantage point when Neil came back with his boat . |
| 4 | Usually in open country fairly near fresh water , but not far up in hills or in towns ; nests colonially in holes excavated in sand and gravel banks . |
| 5 | Not far ahead in the tented camp which the little party of soldiers was approaching , the Regimental Pipe Band was playing . |
| 6 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 7 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 8 | There was another boat not far ahead , going the same way , so that every lock was ‘ against ’ them , which meant they must empty each one before they could enter and must then fill it again . |
| 9 | Not far ahead , they could see the banks of the Avon , and families having picnics . |
| 10 | They cast their lines not far off-shore , and appeared to take excellent catches of fish . |
| 11 | Oh , oh it 's not far over , just over down there . |
| 12 | But telescope not far away too . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not far away is the Slovenský Raj National Park — translated it 's Slovak Paradise . |
| 15 | Most of Britain 's dependent peoples saw the presence of British troops close by , and not far away in the United Kingdom , as the assurance they needed of continuing British protection . |
| 16 | His Dad worked not far away . |
| 17 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 18 | His father could hardly complain ; not far away in Manchester at that period only 43% of the children of the working-class reached even the age of five . |
| 19 | A figure in khaki ran towards the cab shouting , as a couple more bombs crashed down not far away . |
| 20 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 21 | Suddenly a small single-decker bus appeared at a corner not far away . |
| 22 | True , there was a mixed Italian and German team climbing not far away , heading for the Traverse of the Gods ; he could see them but for some reason they could n't see him . |
| 23 | The Springers have now decided to sell and do it all again on a plot not far away — but this time with an indoor pool for year-round use and half-doors so children can be kept within sight of the kitchen and gym . |
| 24 | Other finds , not far away — at Turnham Green — included an urn full of silver coins . |
| 25 | Not far away , at the top of Richmond Hill in Surrey , with a line view over the Royal Park on the one side and the valley of the River Thames — below Richmond Terrace — on the other side , charity funds provided a Home for permanently handicapped British Service men . |
| 26 | At Olney , not far away , William Cowper had written the Olney Hymns in collaboration with the former slave-trader John Newton . |
| 27 | Not far away , silhouetting the pleasant pastures , is an ornate dovecote with other attractive buildings . |
| 28 | ‘ As a matter of fact , he set up in business for himself — not far away , in Mile End . ’ |
| 29 | Beside a new gymnasium not far away , an Arab Israeli was sweeping a path . |
| 30 | He was just another statistic , as was another recent arrival and pre-destined best friend , Henry Warren Beatty , who arrived not far away in Richmond , Virginia , precisely three weeks earlier . |