Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand she was found not all that far from her parents ' house ? |
| 2 | ‘ Tales about married men , some of them not all that far away from here either . ’ |
| 3 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
| 4 | If anything happens to me mother — and it 's not all that far off really — I 'm expected to pick meself up , go back out there and start again . |
| 5 | I ‘ m not all that far behind them , in the end . |
| 6 | But this clearly was not enough as far as Chaman was concerned . |
| 7 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
| 8 | Layton 's ebullience was on a par with Ezra Pound 's ‘ showmanship ’ , and Leonard now found himself not so very far from where the great revolutionary poet ( of Imagism , Vortism etc. ) was actually incarcerated . |
| 9 | To say that every inch of siding space must earn its keep by virtue of the traffic it carries is not so very far from the truth . |
| 10 | We also speak of being ‘ consumed ’ with guilt and , although we are not literally eaten away , the phrase is not so very far from the truth when you consider the harmful effect guilt can have on the physical body . |
| 11 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 12 | Through the window , not so very far away , he could see the big black secret wood that was called The Forest of Sin . |
| 13 | Aye , and against the scavenging scum of the undercity , from which the Valence factory was not so very far removed . |
| 14 | Somewhere , and not so very far off , there was a musket fight . |
| 15 | On these occasions , it is hard to realise that not so very far away , industry and commerce are hard at work . |
| 16 | Which mountains was another question , but they were not so very far from the coast , to judge by how long it had taken to drive here from whatever port they had arrived in . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ said Oisin , ‘ our worlds are not so very far apart . ’ |
| 18 | And maybe that is not so very far from what is true . |
| 19 | ‘ Not so very far . |
| 20 | Fabia awakened in her hotel room in Bamberg and thought that , had Cara been with her , since their destination was not so very far away now , they would have taken time out to have a look round . |
| 21 | Redcar 's not so very far away , now is it ? ’ he adds , his ‘ r 's ’ rolling like chucking out time in Bedlington . |
| 22 | The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too . |
| 23 | ) I was becoming more upfront , and not just as far as food was concerned . |
| 24 | Not once so far had they mentioned her by name , almost as though from some superstition . |
| 25 | It was easy on Parky , not requiring a step-ladder , and not nearly so far to fall once aboard . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not really so far , ’ Harry said persuasively . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not really so far . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe not quite so far , ’ I said . |
| 29 | It 's not quite as far to the main school , cos the main school goes first and the prep school far , no there 's no up that road , it does n't go anywhere only to the school . |
| 30 | The girl had returned earlier , and prematurely , from the hunt , but was not around as far as Tallis could see . |