Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , Widdicombe 's proposals for a far more powerful chief executive were rejected by the government 's 1988 White Paper ( Department of Environment et al . , |
| 2 | They both want to see narrow bends built into straight roads as a far more effective means of slowing traffic . |
| 3 | As soon as Chappy played a duff match last season , Wilko could n't drop him fast enough , yet he was knocking in goals at a far better rate than Deano . |
| 4 | With Mr Milken 's pronounced bias towards debt , he and his raiders left companies in a far more precarious financial shape than they found them . |
| 5 | The sapphire and diamond ring , first revealed this week in TODAY , and the gold wedding band had their origins in a far humbler place — her own studio in the quiet cathedral city of Winchester , Hants . |
| 6 | She writes that in August 1941 , before the Final Solution orders were given , Goebbels complained to Hitler that ‘ Antonescu proceeds in these matters in a far more radical fashion than we have done up to the present . ’ |
| 7 | But there are still others who have no sense of conviction because of problems on a far deeper level , such as a crisis of identity . |
| 8 | It is no wonder our railways are in a mess when they are burdoned by regulations to a far greater extent than any road operator . |
| 9 | Demaine thinks that LOGO holds the promise of giving children access to advanced concepts at a far earlier stage than Piaget would have thought possible . |
| 10 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 11 | ‘ It would be just , I think , if he were made to use his talents in a far more worthy cause . |
| 12 | The West must , unfortunately , be prepared to see the carve-up of Bosnia and come to terms with a far smaller country . |
| 13 | The growth of individualism has weakened the economic relationships between the generations to a far greater extent than that between the sexes within the family . |
| 14 | They came in the form of series of explosions on a far greater scale even than any of the preceding ones , and greater than anything that man has experienced before or since . |
| 15 | Li Po is leaving the world of men for a far more perfect world but there is in his poem nonetheless the idea that he might have wanted both of these worlds , but he has lost one of them ; thus he is chastened . |
| 16 | Nowadays , about a decade after publication of Children 's Minds , developmentalists write about children with a far better understanding of the importance of paying heed to children 's abilities in everyday contexts as well as experimental ones . |
| 17 | Gypsies and other travelling people retain an instinctive awareness of the significance of sites and the flow of subtle energies through the seasons in a far stronger form than more settled people . |
| 18 | I can not make generalisations without a far more detailed study of hospitals . |
| 19 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 20 | In addition Luke records other stories involving women to a far greater extent than the other Gospels ( Luke 7:11ff. , 37ff. ; 8:1–2 ; 10:38–42 ; 21:1–4 ; 23:50–24:11 ) . |
| 21 | Furthermore , Germany was making offensive preparations with Teutonic thoroughness , producing munitions and enlisting soldiers at a far greater rate than the more sanguine Allies . |
| 22 | Moreover , within these areas workers were concentrated in large enterprises to a far greater extent than in the West . |
| 23 | Smooth plains are distinguished from intercrater plains by a far lower number density of small craters and by clear evidence that on the smooth plains there has occurred the obliteration or partial obliteration of craters . |