Example sentences of "not far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's right , yeah , just over , not far over the water from er the Woolwich |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again . |
| 4 | And at Musselburgh it was Ramsay 's turn to say farewell , much as he was tempted to agree to the Randolphs ' urgings and proceed with them over Forth to Doune of Menteith , so much more secure in present circumstances than would be Dalwolsey ; for nothing was surer than that the English would be up to Lothian and Edinburgh before long , and Dalwolsey not far off their path . |
| 5 | Returning to the main cavern at a dead run , Ace threw herself to the side as a cluster of boxes not far off exploded with a sharp blast , hurling several of the defenders into he oily waters . |
| 6 | I was a lad , and there was a farm not far off us . |
| 7 | Stoutstroke dipped and bit and sliced and dug , building a huge triple-deck dam , the main section of which backed up the water in the North Burn for eighty paces ; not far off the record for the position I had chosen . |
| 8 | Misty cloud hung suspended not far above our heads while all we could hear was the trickle of water . |
| 9 | It had freed itself from the stairwell and could smell them , not far above it and within easy reach . |
| 10 | Not far to the left , on a similarly imposing buttress , which lacks only the grandeur of Moyer 's , the bizarre Vaya Con Dios may be found . |
| 11 | Not far to her left she could see the trees which surrounded Kingsbere , with its church where her ancestors lay in their tombs . |
| 12 | The River Aire , then purple with dye from the mills as it coursed under Leeds Bridge , began its journey as a pure , gushing stream tumbling cold and clear down through Airedale from Malham Cove — not far as the kestrel flies . |
| 13 | ‘ Not far at all . |
| 14 | Eighteen miles is not far at all , she says . |
| 15 | Not far at all . ’ |
| 16 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 17 | She became aware at an early stage that there was an entirely different way of life available not far outside Baldersdale , perhaps more appealing to her , but it could have been on another planet . |
| 18 | The Dow Jones industrial average closed on March 20th at 2,739 , not far below its all-time high of 2,810 on January 2 1990 , and well above this year 's low of 2,553 . |
| 19 | The Fed estimates that industry is operating at 81.4% of capacity , not far below the 83% level above which inflation has historically started to accelerate . |
| 20 | A drawing by Webber , the artist assigned by the Admiralty to Cook 's third voyage , of Keelakekula Bay inscribed ‘ the Place where Captain Cook was killed ’ is reputed to have already found a buyer not far below its original purchase price . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not far up the road here is the town of Bagnères-de-Bigorre , a spa known to the Romans and envisaged by Napoleon I as the ‘ capital ’ of a Pyrenean confederation of health resorts — for a while it was given the title , which it can never have begun to merit , of ‘ the Athens of the Pyrenees ’ . |
| 23 | in village , not far up us and er I were getting round me mum and pulling on her skirts and and this old woman says , get him fed Frances , he wants a bit of pap , get him , get him picked up and give him a bit of pap and that 'll shut him up |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ In the morning they found him dead , face down on a bare spot , not far from the town . |
| 26 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 27 | He broke off to applaud a little ball striking a boundary rope not far from us . |
| 28 | I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There is a corker gathering steam not far from my cottage over the siting of a compost heap . |