Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in a knowledge far beyond that of our senses . |
| 2 | Mary was indeed brought up in a country far wealthier and more powerful than that which she was to rule . |
| 3 | It 's obvious that what God said to Noah would have seemed extremely odd ; build a huge boat in a country far away from any substantial water . |
| 4 | While Mrs Walton washed the baby and dressed him in a layette far finer than she had ever imagined existed , Tempy attended to Tamar and put a fresh nightgown on her . |
| 5 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 6 | Their home was in a village far away in the High Tatra Mountains . |
| 7 | She had never known that her parents met at a tennis party in a county far away . |
| 8 | He was tall , and looked sunburned , as if he had spent time recently in a climate far from the Hebrides . |
| 9 | They flung the ball wide down the right , defenders raced in to support and in a sequence far too rapid for Dave Seaman 's comfort , Brett Angell and Ian McInerney contrived four chances . |
| 10 | While they were in the pub , in a corner far from a window , the rain had come on heavily , the kind of rain that will soak you to the skin in two minutes . |
| 11 | Although he always sent her out with new clothes that should have made her embody his idea of elegance , he was resigned to the fact that she would return in a version far removed from his original concept . |
| 12 | In a reality far beyond all other reality |
| 13 | Sandison 's idling thoughts were suddenly overtaken by his realisation that he was in a place far , far from home , a place so different and not exactly hostile but alien , perhaps unknowable . |
| 14 | Cassie knew that , for all his desire , he was , at that moment , in a place far , far away from her , his thoughts up there in the sky with his comrades , leaving her earthbound and excluded . |
| 15 | My Mum brought up five of us in a flat far worse than what these immigrants complain about . ’ |