Example sentences of "far ahead " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are a sign of poor planning and of not thinking sufficiently far ahead , but they can be useful as an option , just as sideslipping is an extra skill which can prevent a serious overshoot and a broken glider . |
| 2 | Ironically , Judaism 's splendid emphasis on the father-son relationship , the most sacred there is next to that between the Creator and the created , exacerbates this loss ; hence Judaism 's very humane laws to do with ‘ the fatherless ’ — far ahead of its and any other time . |
| 3 | The anti-Germanism reflects the Report 's composition in the aftermath of the First World War ; at the same time , this passage looks far ahead , already foreshadowing the opposition between Zapp and Swallow as representative figures . |
| 4 | ‘ If I was him I would probably skip the French , but I would n't talk about it so far ahead . ’ |
| 5 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 6 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 7 | The disappearance of manned bombers as well as fighters would reduce the RAF to a missile and air-transport force — not an inviting prospect , but one that seemed too far ahead to worry about unduly in 1957 . |
| 8 | Not far ahead in the tented camp which the little party of soldiers was approaching , the Regimental Pipe Band was playing . |
| 9 | ‘ I ca n't remember a horse so far ahead in the Grand National at this stage ! ’ enthused commentator Julian Wilson on BBC television as Crisp came to Becher 's Brook for the second time , still looking uncatchable : galloping relentlessly and jumping brilliantly , he was thirty lengths clear and showed no signs of flagging . |
| 10 | I could n't always see so far ahead by moonlight and needed to consult the compass more often . |
| 11 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 12 | There is no limit to how far ahead you can book nor , often , on length of stay , although popular hostels may impose restrictions to give everyone a fair chance . |
| 13 | His United counterpart , Alex Ferguson , was also reluctant to look too far ahead , despite the obvious temptations after his side returned to scoring form with their victory over Norwich last week . |
| 14 | What 's more , the engine is much the same as that in the 1935 15-series cars , and Citroen 's engines were never as far ahead of their time as the rest of the car . |
| 15 | I lived in one of them for many years and know how far ahead of their time they were . |
| 16 | The interesting thing is that Lord Leverhulme , who was so far ahead of his contemporaries in so many ways , missed two essential elements in the situation . |
| 17 | To tell you the truth I have n't thought that far ahead . ’ |
| 18 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 19 | One should therefore think very carefully and far ahead before deciding to break up a good permanent pasture : it is a slow , costly , and difficult task to get it back . |
| 20 | They are so far ahead of London it 's not true . ’ |
| 21 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 22 | I could barely see ten yards because of the glare , and it was no use trying to look far ahead . |
| 23 | If he wanted to depress himself he could very easily , thinking on this subject , but he was not used to looking too far ahead in this life . |
| 24 | The team was chosen so far ahead that the monumental Rangers defender George Young was omitted because of an injury that cleared up weeks before the team left Scotland . |
| 25 | We could n't do a thing about it , only get on with our jobs , living from day to day and , being young , looking forward to the day — surely not too far ahead — when things would start moving in our favour again . |
| 26 | When we were younger and talked about this as our retirement home , people tended to laugh and think we were being pessimistic thinking so far ahead . |
| 27 | ‘ Few people realise just how far ahead the French have gone ’ , he says . |
| 28 | It seemed that the only way I could be sure of making teams in future was to be so far ahead of the opposition that they could n't possibly leave me out . |
| 29 | ‘ Patrick Seton evidently rode too far ahead of the King and actually reached Kinghorn . |
| 30 | The air was amazingly clear , as it often is after a wet day , and as they climbed the hill which would take them back to Pinehurst they could see , far ahead , the lights of several villages and one big town . |