Example sentences of "far behind " in BNC.
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| 1 | That demonstrates just how far behind we have slipped in world terms . |
| 2 | Ben 's favourite treat is a dog chew , but dog biscuits and bones are n't far behind . |
| 3 | Many would love to know , for instance , whether there any clocks in the White House which show the time in Moscow , or Warsaw , or Budapest , because people wonder why Mr Bush and Company appear to be falling so far behind in their reaction to the pace of life in those cities . |
| 4 | With Kent 's Peter Mitchell , who had a 67 , far behind in second , Feherty now is going ‘ to put on the blinkers ’ . |
| 5 | Newspapers were not far behind with an Average score of 5.3. party Election Broadcasts on TV and radio scored 5.1 . |
| 6 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 7 | Even Bulgaria is not far behind . |
| 8 | If Tories like him are wobbling , can softer voters be far behind ? |
| 9 | If the situation continues unchallenged , not only will local populations of rare dolphins be wiped out , but the threat of extinction looms not far behind . |
| 10 | America was not far behind , with total mortgage debt equivalent to 45% of GDP in 1989 . |
| 11 | Full economic and then political union can not be far behind . |
| 12 | Germany still has the world 's most expensive industrial electricity , with Italy not far behind . |
| 13 | With Bosch 's name behind it , Travel Pilot may sell where Navigator failed ; if so , mass-market systems can not be far behind . |
| 14 | Amoco , not far behind , rose 72% to $803m . |
| 15 | Athletics is not far behind . |
| 16 | The next-door train had been left far behind . |
| 17 | he says they have been far behind and came nowhere near the 70–78% of E grades achieved by the crossbred lambs by the Dutch Texel . |
| 18 | For while his victory certainly overturned the basic tenets of any horse race — he won because he was so far behind at the crucial moment — still he gained that victory by adapting to the circumstances which had suddenly presented themselves , by his jockey 's quick and skilful manoeuvring by his jockey , by jumping accurately and by keeping up his gallop to the end . |
| 19 | ‘ We are so far behind I fear we shall never catch up , ’ he says , gloomily . |
| 20 | Can the hangover be far behind ? |
| 21 | The bile just spews out and , in the character of Cordelia Vaisey , he had created one of his most memorable female monsters , leaving his fellow misogynists trailing far behind . |
| 22 | Pepper was outstanding against Northampton , with Greenwood , Hindmarch and the two centres , Potter and Jones , not far behind . |
| 23 | Soon Mould was far behind . |
| 24 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 25 | I 'm too far behind . |
| 26 | It is still in its infancy , still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup , but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind . |
| 27 | The selling of book tie-ins in video outlets can not be far behind . |
| 28 | ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ , he would ask ; ‘ do n't you feel … ca n't you hear ? ’ , as he rushed from one place or book or topic to another , expecting others to have the same reactions , so that Frank Tait , a cultured and intelligent man , described how he ‘ hurried out of breath to seem less far behind ’ . |
| 29 | He powered through the water , leaving the boat and the other swimmers who had escorted him far behind . |
| 30 | By mid-March he was far behind with the reviewing on which he now chiefly depended for a living , Cottle was becoming ‘ clamorous ’ about preparations for the new edition of poems , and Osorio was a commitment which seemed likely to reach for months into the future . |