Example sentences of "be about [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUNSCREEM ARE about as far removed from rock music and spurious notions of ‘ cutting it live ’ as it 's possible to get , but as one of the few rave-oriented acts around who actually play live they could teach a lot of aspiring indie acts a thing or seven about live entertainment . |
| 2 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 3 | In most other respects , in terms of personality , ideology , political credibility and intellectual coherence , Mosley 's and Leese 's fascism were about as far apart from each other as it was possible to be . |
| 4 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 5 | Wendy Cope is about as far from the old-boy generation as David Wright feels from his first meeting with George Barker , but she knows what they 're like : Do n't ask him the time of day . |
| 6 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 7 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 8 | By and large , of course , your average Euro-Communist is about as far to the left as an English liberal , but here , among these dry Tuscan hills , they have a tougher breed , who hark back to the guerrilla fighters of 1943 . |
| 9 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 10 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 11 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 12 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 13 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 14 | This knowledge ensures they start every letter with ‘ I know you must be swamped by requests to open bizzarres [ sic ] like these but — ’ and ‘ Your secretary assures us that you are unable to speak at our annual dinner in John O'Groats but — ’ and that 's about as far as understanding goes . |
| 15 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 16 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |
| 17 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 18 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |