Example sentences of "least as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the yet more gloomy expression on his normally lugubrious face it was evident that he had resigned himself to her companionship at least as far as his hotel perched up far above the sea . |
| 2 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 3 | This was clearly a wild exaggeration , but it showed , at least as far as the large Catholic minority of Belorussia was concerned , that any attempt to base nationalism on Catholic separatism would be doomed to failure . |
| 4 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , both Franca and Alison had , after initial suspicion , adopted Irina , at least as far as amusing themselves by helping her to spend money on having her hair done and buying clothes . |
| 6 | The condition of the books in my list suggests that Vaisey is right and that , at least as far as English printed books are concerned , the justification of dispersal for reasons of ‘ preservation ’ is to be discounted . |
| 7 | There are no rigid rules about blending , at least as far as aromatherapy is concerned — though perfumers may disagree . |
| 8 | Therefore it does not look as though the explanation of the action clients ' failure to be supported at home for longer than control samples is due to their more problematic home care potential ( at least as far as the characteristics described above are concerned ) . |
| 9 | A chemical fire in Switzerland caused toxic materials to be transported by the Rhine at least as far as the Netherlands ; |
| 10 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 11 | If the deep anaphor can be assigned a suitable interpretation from a content-based representation it does not matter , at least as far as a considered judgement of acceptability is concerned , if the previous expression of that content does not parallel the one that would have to be substituted for the anaphor to make a full second clause . |
| 12 | Eventually heads were put together , a suitable ‘ incident ’ was manufactured to satisfy all concerned , and the whole episode chalked up to experience , at least as far as J. was concerned . |
| 13 | Priestley was not a Christian , at least as far as George III and the Anglican Church were concerned . |
| 14 | The thorn in Pollini 's side ( at least as far as his recordings are concerned ) is his occasional refusal to gild the lily . |
| 15 | He would go with them at least as far as the bridge . |
| 16 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 17 | So the Cabriolet 's top is hollow down at least as far as the bass E string , and I suspect a little further . |
| 18 | Gibraltar , for instance , is often used to hold Spanish assets , although the Spanish tax authorities are aware of the situation and attempting to limit it at least as far as the holding of real property is concerned . |
| 19 | One miracle to praise God for is that everything that has been sent out to me I have received ( at least as far as I know ) . |
| 20 | The theory , stated firmly in most gardening manuals , that planting potatoes the first year on neglected land helps to clean it of weeds was erroneous — at least as far as ours was concerned . |
| 21 | It 's a long road from here to there — at least as far as it was from there to here via Jamaica ! |
| 22 | The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E . |
| 23 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 24 | Malinowski is usually regarded as the greatest of these researchers , at least as far as his methods are concerned . |
| 25 | Re-examination of core material from Deep Sea Drilling Project Sites 572–574 confirms the occurrence of similar laminated diatom ooze at least as far as 133°W . |
| 26 | Indeed , Beccaria 's classical model , at least as far as the form and content of actual penal treatments are concerned , has never really been tried — if we are to accept Foucault 's version of events . |
| 27 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 28 | The second , Intel version , was demonstrated at PC Expo in New York , but will remain under the covers — at least as far as users are concerned — until the end of the the year at the very earliest . |
| 29 | That unhinging extended back at least as far as the Japanese attack on the American fleet at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 , a crisis which allowed Franklin Roosevelt finally to break free from the congressional restraints on executive action that had been operative in the inter war period . |
| 30 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |