Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 2 | Of course , the sense of the danger to English studies from viewing literary texts as social , historical , or cultural " documents " reached back at least as far as Newbolt , and every subsequent suggestion that texts be used in such a way rekindled related anxieties . |
| 3 | THE CIVIL WAR IS NOT OVER YET — at least as far as Britain 's beer duty collectors are concerned . |
| 4 | Worst of all , at least as far as Ben is concerned , they damp down the creative faculty . ’ |
| 5 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 6 | The second , Intel version , was demonstrated at PC Expo in New York , but will remain under the covers — at least as far as users are concerned — until the end of the the year at the very earliest . |
| 7 | And , at least as far as morality is concerned , I think , yes . |
| 8 | Eventually heads were put together , a suitable ‘ incident ’ was manufactured to satisfy all concerned , and the whole episode chalked up to experience , at least as far as J. was concerned . |
| 9 | The railway will come at least as far as Witney , you mark my words . |
| 10 | This goes back at least as far as Aristotle . |
| 11 | Official efforts to protect the cultivator against an oppressive lord went back at least as far as legislation by the Emperor Leopold I in 1680 ; and in many ways Maria Theresa showed a truer concern for her peasant subjects than her son was ever to do . |
| 12 | There are no rigid rules about blending , at least as far as aromatherapy is concerned — though perfumers may disagree . |
| 13 | Ideas relating the folds and faults expressed in the Mesozoic cover of southern England to the underlying basement structure go back at least as far as Godwin-Austen ( 1856 ) , but have gradually become more firmly based . |
| 14 | An important point to emerge out of the network model is that aspects of non-co-operation seem to be more common than prototypically co-operative behaviour from a reader 's perspective , at least as far as SF is concerned . |
| 15 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 16 | Priestley was not a Christian , at least as far as George III and the Anglican Church were concerned . |
| 17 | If the conditions in which a lineage of animals lives remain constant ; say it is dry and hot and has been so without a break for 100 generations , evolution in that lineage is likely to come to a halt , at least as far as adaptations to temperature and humidity are concerned . |
| 18 | Their replacement , at least as far as desktop publishing is concerned , is the page printer . |
| 19 | The idea that criminality is the outcome of organic disorder or disease goes back at least as far as Lombroso , who associated crime with epilepsy . |
| 20 | Up to the day before I had hoped he would come with me at least as far as Perpignan , to see me on my way ; now there was no question of that , and indeed I could hardly wait to get away from him . |
| 21 | To the outsider , psychoanalysis appears a pretty broad church , at least so far as dream interpretation is concerned . |
| 22 | Still , to some extent , every modern economy , at least so far as ownership of some means of production or municipal enterprises or financial institutions are concerned , is a mixed economy . |
| 23 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 24 | It is in Darién , however — at least so far as Panama 's administrators are concerned . |
| 25 | Soil-nutrients have been found to be at similar levels as under mature forest , at least so far as phosphorus , organic carbon and nitrogen are concerned , though the pH and cation concentrations are higher . |
| 26 | Equally , however , the substantial de facto mobility out of the manual working class has not dissolved its traditional collectivist propensities , at least so far as trade unionism is concerned . |
| 27 | The meeting , however , failed to produce a satisfactory outcome ( at least so far as Harold Wilson was concerned ) , and I wrote a letter to the BBC demanding an apology in some ensuing programme . |
| 28 | There are basically three types , at least so far as desktop publishers are concerned ; Bit maps , photographs and object oriented graphics . |
| 29 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 30 | At least so far as chess is concerned , working on the level of ideas , instead of specific calculations , seems to let a tremendous amount of imprecision into one 's thinking . |