Example sentences of "was far [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that the hon. Gentleman had framed his supplementary before hearing my answer to his question , in which I made it clear that the number of nurses who were employed during that period was far greater than the number who qualified . |
| 2 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
| 3 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 4 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 5 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 6 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |
| 7 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 8 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 9 | This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists . |
| 10 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |