Example sentences of "influence far " in BNC.

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1 True , the Liberal Nationals were becoming indistinguishable from the Conservatives , while National Labour was too small to be able to exert very much influence upon the massed ranks of Conservatives , although the prestige of the Prime Minister , Ramsay MacDonald , gave it — as Marquand shows — an influence far greater than its mere numbers would have warranted .
2 The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries .
3 On some issues such discussions ‘ have had a very substantial influence on government policy — indeed an influence far in excess of that of the CCLGF ’ .
4 Although a comparatively small group , the Salvation Army or Galavima Hamudava in Sinhalese and Ratchaniya Senai in Tamil , had an influence far beyond their numbers because of their social work .
5 Enough has been said to indicate how the institutions and the legal system to which Britain acceded have been able , on the back of the Treaty of Rome and its amendments , to stretch their influence far beyond the economic boundaries hoped for and assumed by the British .
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