Example sentences of "so far away [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , you should n't be so far away that you can not close quickly enough .
2 Neither stand so far away that it can not pick up your voice .
3 Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light .
4 I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape .
5 There below you , so far away that it might be in Derbyshire , was a single toytown rooftop .
6 The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices .
7 As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied .
8 Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties .
9 It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes .
10 But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues .
11 Their mother and father were so far away and you could n't write that sort of thing in a letter .
12 The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was .
13 My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face .
14 Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him .
15 From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients .
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