Example sentences of "not far off " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was not dead , but not far off dead — and 't was said he 'd never be the same again . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was a lad , and there was a farm not far off us . |
| 6 | 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 . |