Example sentences of "[vb past] as far as the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 2 | Last year , there were protracted negotiations for Tucson , Arizona-based direct rival Artisoft Inc to take over Performance , which got as far as the two signing a letter of intent to that effect . |
| 3 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 5 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 6 | Belorussia , in these new circumstances , began to raise territorial claims against Lithuania , which extended as far as the Lithuanian capital Vilnius . |
| 7 | Jacques Boussard , the leading French historian of the Angevin Empire , felt confident enough to write that Henry 's authority now extended as far as the Mediterranean ! |
| 8 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 9 | The fact that it spread as far as the Mycenaean chiefdoms of Greece has sometimes been regarded as surprising . |