Example sentences of "stretching as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 2 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 3 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 4 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 5 | Even before the war with Spain ended in 1609 the Dutch were preparing to attack various parts of the empire the Portuguese had built up in the Indian Ocean in the previous hundred years , stretching as far east as Java and the other Spice Islands near it , and later on they also attacked the Portuguese possessions in Brazil . |
| 6 | But this has a history stretching as far back … well , to tell you the truth — to when records began . |
| 7 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |
| 8 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |
| 9 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |