Example sentences of "far apart " in BNC.
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| 1 | World View : So close yet still far apart : Timothy Garton Ash reflects on what it means when Germans start behaving like Poles , and Poles like Germans |
| 2 | It is hard to think of two other nations in Europe which are so close and yet , still , despite many noble efforts on both sides , so very far apart . |
| 3 | It was important to Michael Ramsey , not only then but much later , that before Frank 's death he felt him to be less far apart over religion . |
| 4 | For your professional purposes , and mine as a politician , we have to keep them as far apart as we can — providing of course that my analysis is sound . |
| 5 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 6 | The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart . |
| 7 | ORT is one example of the health care programmes which CARE is helping to introduce in countries as far apart as India and Peru . |
| 8 | Muslims are just as divided as Christians : by ethnic origin ( they hail from areas as far apart as Turkey and Nigeria ) ; by language ( as well as Arabic , their native tongues include Urdu , Bengali , Hausa , Swahili and Farsi ) ; by doctrine ( three-quarters are Shias and the rest are Sunnis ) ; by money ( Kuwaiti bankers do not usually invite Bradford textile-workers to their Knightsbridge dinner parties ) ; and by politics . |
| 9 | silver , bronze and brass items from as far apart as first-century AD Rome and nineteenth-century AD Moscow , ninth-century AD Persia and thirteenth-century AD England ( fig. 5.16 ) . |
| 10 | Two of the very common gold coins of the Roman Emperor Claudius I , struck from the same dies , have been found in hoards as far apart as Kent and southern India . |
| 11 | The pale cream splashes were easy to spot , never far apart . |
| 12 | For much of the rest of the time we slept and cooked out , though most people never actually slept in their hammocks as the trees grew inconveniently far apart . |
| 13 | The deal , released yesterday , will boost Tory election prospects in seats as far apart as Preston , Lancashire , where British Aerospace build Tornado bombers , Brough on Humberside , where Hawk trainers are built , Southampton where Vosper 's build minesweepers , and Yeovil in Somerset , the home of Westland helicopters — all expected to be part of the arms package . |
| 14 | In August 1940 , this little team of propagandists was urgently soothing panicky policemen , as far apart as Kent and Cardiganshire , who were convinced the invasion had started . |
| 15 | When the Canadian Northern reached Vancouver in 1915 , it reclaimed land at False Creek , one of the many land reclamation schemes which facilitated the building of railway stations as far apart as Bombay and Auckland — and built a massive classical station . |
| 16 | How far apart ? |
| 17 | Hawaii and Iceland are nearly as far apart as it is possible to get on Earth , but both are composed of basalts , and oceanic volcanoes everywhere in the world are composed of almost identical basalts . |
| 18 | How far apart were these larger market towns and cities in 1800 ? |
| 19 | Roughly how far apart on the map are the market towns ? |
| 20 | Between 25 December 1963 and 21 March 1964 a party of eight wintered in West Sussex , being seen in several places as far apart as Sidlesham and Wiston Park ; there is no reason to suppose that more than one party was involved . |
| 21 | Obviously , if two objects are physically connected they must be at about the same distance from us , and yet many of these Arp associations include objects with redshifts that ‘ ought ’ to place them far apart along the line of sight . |
| 22 | But then the feet began to stretch wider and wider apart , and I knew that when the feet were as far apart as I was long , I 'd fall through to the heaving belly beneath . |
| 23 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 24 | They appeared often at different spots , places far apart , sometimes — usually — far off , many miles into the forest , sometimes quite near , not more than a few miles in . |
| 25 | In fact , wind power is already contributing energy to the national grid in places as far apart as Ilfracombe in Devon , and Ripon in North Yorkshire , with dozens more wind farms planned by the turn of the century . |
| 26 | She-who-Pulls-the-Strings said the bars were to far apart and the dogs would get stuck in them . |
| 27 | This year over 40 exhibitors spread themselves between a score of hotels and venues , apparently selected on the basis of being as far apart as possible . |
| 28 | This beautiful fish is Pseudanthias bimaculatus which has been recorded from location as far apart as Mozambique and Indonesia . |
| 29 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |
| 30 | So we have the nine daughters of Benjamin James Titford : three died young , one remained a spinster , three were Edwardian brides , two married during the early years of the reign of King George V. Their lives would take them far apart from each other and from Curry Rivel itself — yet they would remain a close-knit family , for all the physical distance which separated them . |