Example sentences of "only [adv] far [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 2 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 3 | In 1905 the Lytham Company , whose blue cars operated into Blackpool only as far as South Shore Station , threatened legal action unless Blackpool Corporation allowed them to operate further into town . |
| 4 | Bull said it still continues to be part of ACE Consortium , but only as far as desktop Intel-based systems are concerned : it refused to be drawn over the question of whether its relationship with IBM would result in it favouring OS/2 over Windows 3 , saying only that ‘ Windows is what our customers are buying today ’ . |
| 5 | The next time they are able to gather together enough courage to set out for the supermarket they may get only as far as point B before they have had enough , anticipating more extreme levels of anxiety if they continue . |
| 6 | Initially they could get as far as point A , then only as far as point B , and then only as far as point C. Thus the circle of safety tends to diminish gradually . |
| 7 | On the next occasion they may get only as far as point C and so on until they are virtually unable to leave home . |
| 8 | Initially they could get as far as point A , then only as far as point B , and then only as far as point C. Thus the circle of safety tends to diminish gradually . |