Example sentences of "[adv] far as [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The suspicion that viruses might cause cancer can be traced back as far as 1911 . |
| 32 | Based in Bristol , Sun Life has a history that stretches back as far as 1810 . |
| 33 | Such claims in fact go back as far as 1926 , but it was with Thom 's careful measurement of many stone circles and alignments in Britain and Brittany that a scientific analysis of the problem could be attempted . |
| 34 | Apart from the personal attacks , its indictment of her political and ideological ideas went back as far as 1978 when she published her novel Await . |
| 35 | These " cosmic ripples " were estimated to stretch as far as 59 billion trillion miles in space and were calculated to have been formed only 300,000 years after the " Big Bang " ( the original event which scientists believe had created space and time ) . |
| 36 | In some species these trailing threads , full of stinging-cells called nematocysts , can reach as far as 50 feet . |
| 37 | Very few registers go back as far as 1538 . |
| 38 | Faced with drought , the Las Vegas Valley Water District has made 146 applications for access to 26 underground basins as far as 250 miles away and as much as 1,000 feet below the surface . |
| 39 | Few of them , however , go back as far as 1880 , though historical reconstruction can often supplement them . |