Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 2 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 3 | But we missed a couple of fairways and he was n't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough . |
| 4 | The Baden region is well to the south of Germany 's more famous wine areas , and so receives far more sunshine , giving the growers greater flexibility in what kinds of wine they can make . |
| 5 | Yet all around , E4 's and E5 's were white-caked : obviously ascended far more often than my lowly objective . |
| 6 | The bulls are in demand for use as beef sires in dairy and suckler herds and the calves are small enough to cause far fewer calving problems than the offspring of breeds such as the Charolais , Blonde d'Aquitaine or Maine-Anjou . |
| 7 | It was all getting far too complicated . |
| 8 | These questions are obviously getting far too easy , you 're er , answering them so well . |
| 9 | Despite its unhurried style and careful attention to detail , the firm achieved 170 placements with eleven consultants in 1979 ; now , with thirteen consultants , the firm annually completes far more , but is not necessarily seeking to maximise its volume , and certainly not at the expense of quality of service . |
| 10 | Egyptian sculptors had long known far more than their first Greek emulators about the structure of the human body , but the general effect of their work is ( as it was surely meant to be ) much less alive . |
| 11 | If Wales was part of a federal United Kingdom , we would obviously have far more control over our own affairs ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
| 12 | However , if it was too weak and watered down a version of Presbyterianism for the Scots , it none the less proved far too rigid and alien for the majority of the English laity . |
| 13 | ‘ And … and what about the sleeping arrangements ? ’ she asked stiffly , hugging the robe which suddenly felt far too flimsy , close around her body . |
| 14 | These not only involved far more variables , but also secondary data sources in addition to field survey . |
| 15 | In the context of the smaller-volume and more highly segmented Far Eastern markets , competitive advantage hinged upon increasing customer sensitivity and decreasing the costs of model change ( Porter , 1986 : 51 ) . |
| 16 | If a number of employees insist on cash payment , an employer can not simply scrap his old cash-payment system , and so gains far less from instituting bank payment than if he can simply switch to bank payment as the general rule . |
| 17 | But 19-year-old Smith has already jumped far higher than Grant this year , including 2.33 for his club in his first competitive outing two weeks ago . |
| 18 | Alright , you not got far on this |
| 19 | Stanley , who was reading a paper , said to Mary Ann : ‘ Tell our Emily she 's not to go far . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were told not to go far , young lady . |
| 21 | He turned to Marian but she had already plunged far down into unconsciousness , overwhelmed by the need for sleep . |
| 22 | The Sudanese were already proving far more devout than the Egyptians . |
| 23 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 24 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 25 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 26 | That balance means the Met generally has far less to worry about , financially , than the British Museum . |
| 27 | So far this argument has not departed far from the ‘ radical social control ’ position outlined above . |
| 28 | Instead of paying cash for each chance accepted would charity not benefit far more if 50p was paid for each dropped catch and missed stumping ? |
| 29 | The main gathering of scholars was at Charles ' court , and it seems clear that there was a conscious attempt to restore classical glories , even though much of this did not percolate far beyond the royal circle of intimates . |
| 30 | I walk upstream ; upstream because I can wade to the other bank if I need to and any disturbance will not carry far against the current . |