Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he also aware that bloodstock is subject to a far higher rate of VAT than in this country in France or in Ireland ? |
| 2 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 3 | It would be certain that they would be usable for a far greater number of hours than is now practical with our known meteorological patterns . |
| 4 | The ‘ compunctions of conscience are in general of a far more fleeting nature ’ . |
| 5 | As these figures suggest , councillors are predominantly male , middle-aged , and middle-class to a far greater extent than the population as a whole . |
| 6 | In particular , the transition to democracy has seen a condensed and accelerated process of institutionalization of industrial relations , and of accompanying political exchange between the labour movement , employers and the state that would normally only be observable over a far longer period . |
| 7 | The duke had already sent forward a large detachment under General Humphrey Bland to the Strathbogie district , the principal town of which was Keith , seven miles [ 11 km ] east of the Spey , but they were surprised by a far smaller fighting patrol of 200 rebel foot and 40 horse , who had crossed the Spey under cover of darkness . |