Example sentences of "[verb] as far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ravens Corvus corax and snowy owls Nyctea scandiaca ( Watson , 1957 ) are among the hardiest residents ; snowy owls have been reported as far north as 82N on Ellesmere Island in winter ( Gessaman , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Ivory was certainly carried as far north as York during Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 3 | The GC was completely lifted as far north as Duckmanton North Junction , leaving a single track in use to serve Arkwright colliery via the LD & EC curves . |
| 4 | In July 1893 , one was caught as far north as the Firth of Forth . |
| 5 | Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire . |
| 6 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 7 | The barbet species spread as far east as Bali but not into Lombok separated by only 15 miles ( 24 km ) of water . |
| 8 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 9 | With the increased comfort and greater operational range more ambitious patrols could now be carried out and Venturous began to be seen as far north as Islay on the west coast and the Tyne on the east coast . |
| 10 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 11 | In Portugal the French influence was strongest , led by Burgundy , and craftsmen and artisans had reached as far south as Lisbon by the mid-twelfth century . |
| 12 | Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us . |
| 13 | One winter in the last century twelve great white bears got as far south as Iceland by this method ; imagine them riding town on their melting thrones to make a terrifying , godlike landfall . |
| 14 | It is found as far north as Mexico and as far south as southern Brazil . |
| 15 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 16 | Brown soils of this level of maturity are found as far north as Devon Island ( 75°30'N ) in the Canadian Arctic , forming mosaics with polar desert soils ( Walker and Peters , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | The seal wanted to race south and burn off all her blubber , but she knew the penguin was scared , so she swam in lazy circles around the ice raft , singing and talking and giving the penguin names for all the new birds they saw , birds too canny to fly as far north as the Pole for fear of freezing . |
| 18 | It rarely wanders as far south as the British or northern European coasts in winter . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 21 | ‘ They ’ did not come as far west as Fulham that night , but we did get it before the end of the week . |
| 22 | Extra-mural ribbon development , accompanied by several short side-streets and lanes , is also visible , probably extending as far east as the winged-corridor complex noted earlier . |
| 23 | Polar bears generally spend most of their lives offshore , on the Arctic ice pack , but occasionally wander as far south as the Arctic coast . |
| 24 | Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine . |
| 25 | The Lombards had soon occupied an area that extended as far south as Perugia , though not all the way east to the Adriatic coast . |
| 26 | The corridor of land administered by the League extended as far south as Cracow , Göttingen and Cologne . |
| 27 | In some winters it extends as far north as the limit of cold Antarctic surface waters , i.e. to the Antarctic Convergence , particularly in the Pacific and Atlantic sectors of the ocean . |
| 28 | The Commission resorted to desperate , grand-scale measures : along the valley of the river Netze as far east as Bromberg it settled a solid block of 22,000 Germans in an effort to prevent Polish land purchases in the area . |
| 29 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 30 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |