Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb -s] so far [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 2 | An appeal fund set up after the tragedy has so far raised £149,664 in memory of James . |
| 3 | The club has so far played two games and is undefeated . |
| 4 | Nevertheless there has been little interest in exploring for Zechstein gas in the North Sea and the test results so far encountered have been very discouraging . |
| 5 | Disappointingly , the committee has so far felt able to recommend only a tiny step towards establishing acceptable levels of medical staffing in the NHS . |
| 6 | This is more than a million million million times as long as the universe has so far existed . |
| 7 | The feud has so far claimed five lives . |
| 8 | The private rented sector as you should be well aware , is in fact declining quite rapidly in this country and no measure that the government has so far taken has managed to rev reverse that trend . |
| 9 | ‘ The Government has so far concentrated on short-term actions and pension law reform . |
| 10 | It can and should be argued that most of the performance measures so far developed are , however , measures of research output rather than of administrative efficiency . |
| 11 | The discussion has so far focused on the corporate purpose and thereby role of authorities in the new NHS . |
| 12 | Although the company has so far finished only four chips , all seven should be ready for the prototypes that the company will exhibit at the Berlin Radio Show in August . |
| 13 | Unions sources said last night that they think the move could have a knock-on effect at other firms , and could be seized on by unions at Ford — where the company has so far resisted demands to reduce the 39-hour working week , and whose workers at Southampton walked out yesterday in protest at the company 's pay offer . |
| 14 | Digging will start in the summer of 1993 , with the excavation of selected buildings , as well as the examination of those areas in which the survey has so far revealed nothing , but which may produce underlying Minoan levels which can be investigated in the future . |
| 15 | The involvement has so far cost Hachette 's shareholders £180m in provisions and the humiliation of being forced into an improbable merger with electronics group Matra . |
| 16 | It is widely accepted that vast amounts of police time are wasted by calling constables unnecessarily as court witnesses but the problem has so far proved intractable . |
| 17 | But between the caution of a Brierley or a Spalvins and the reckless aggression of Bond , there is a middle group of antipodean entrepreneurs who have borrowed heavily to expand but for whom the expansion has so far paid off . |
| 18 | From Bill Evans ' early days at the end of the first world war , across the years to Bill Evans junior of the 1990's , the family has so far recorded a combined total of 143 years ' service with Wedgwood . |
| 19 | The taskforce has so far charged 544 defendants and won 385 convictions . |