Example sentences of "from [adv] far away [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 2 | There 's already been interest from as far away as Japan . |
| 3 | He says that there has been a lot of overseas interest , from as far away as Japan . |
| 4 | Sometimes messages come from as far away as Senegal and Pakistan . |
| 5 | Thousands of tourists from as far away as Essex have flooded to the area to strip the wreck of the 10,000-ton ship Demetrius . |
| 6 | There were accusations that their presence had been orchestrated using methods reminiscent of the Ceausescu regime , with factory NSF committees giving workers time off to participate in demonstrations , and transport being laid on to bring demonstrators from as far away as Constanţa , the Black Sea port around 200 km from Bucharest . |
| 7 | The Theatre 's annual panto has become something of a cult , with people coming from as far away as Amsterdam and Geneva to see this year 's ’ Mother Goose . ’ |
| 8 | Mystery schools descended from ancient Egypt cohabited amicably with Greek mystery schools , with Hellenistic philosophy , with religious teachings from Palestine and Syria , with skeins of Zoroastrian and Mithraic tradition , with sects and cults from every quarter of the Mediterranean , even with offshoots of Hinduism and Buddhism imported from as far away as India . |
| 9 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |
| 10 | And they came either from other parts of the city , or even from as far away as Birmingham . |
| 11 | Mr Philips further insisted : ‘ We were overwhelmed by the number of messages of support we received from across the North of Ireland , and we even got a phonecall from as far away as Greece . ’ |
| 12 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 13 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 14 | Over 10 thousand hunt supporters travelled from as far away as Scotland and Norfolk to protest against Kevin Macnamara 's bill , which is to be debated in the House of Commons tomorrow . |
| 15 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 16 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 17 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 18 | Exhibitors are drawn from many parts of the North of England , some from as far away as Macclesfield , as well as the more local places such as Blackpool , Thornton , Blackburn , Bolton and Liverpool . |
| 19 | ‘ We have had patients from as far away as Wales because we specialise in cardiac rhythm problems . |
| 20 | Boys would come from as far away as Shepherd 's Bush and Bayswater to play on it between fighting rival gangs . |
| 21 | Children travel here from as far away as Malta . |
| 22 | As they ate , the students sat cross-legged on carpets brought from as far away as Shiraz , Damascus and the Yemen . |
| 23 | At this hypermarket more than half the booze sales are to English shoppers , they come from as far away as Yorkshire to stock up for the Christmas part season . |
| 24 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 25 | ‘ But now we can take children and adults from as far away as Stanhope and Richmond . ’ |
| 26 | Weavers from as far away as Taunton and Exeter were found in Norwich in 1674 , and many others came in search of employment in this labour-intensive craft . |
| 27 | Its students , from as far away as Java , Sumatra , Korea , China and Japan included Hsuang Tsang , the Chinese traveller who studied there in the seventh century . |
| 28 | Madras , for example , imported them from as far away as Ceylon and Malaya . |
| 29 | Canon Reggie Twaddell of St Mark 's Parish Church said he had received letters of condemnation from as far away as Crete , Cork and Kilkenny after damage to the stained glass windows . |
| 30 | We 'll have 3,100 pints on tap at the event for the expected 1,000 visitors , some of whom are coming from as far away as Belgium . |