Example sentences of "were [prep] far the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her legs were by far the worst , though — just supporting her own body weight could break them . |
| 2 | The years 1544 and 1545 were to see a number of English invasions , of which those of May 1544 and the autumn of 1545 — timed for the destruction of the harvest — were by far the worst . |
| 3 | The Conference leaders were by far the more accomplished side in front of a crowd of 5,443 — their best of the season . |
| 4 | Sheep were by far the most common livestock . |
| 5 | Touching and fondling were by far the most common complaints . |
| 6 | The haplochromines were also extremely numerous ; indeed , they were by far the principal biomass of Lake Victoria . |
| 7 | Both sides made use of bows , though the Moslems were by far the more proficient in their use . |
| 8 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 9 | ‘ We were by far the second best . |
| 10 | Kittiwakes were by far the most numerous of the gulls , nesting in huge noisy colonies on precipitous cliffs , while glaucous gulls with their all pale wing-tips replaced the herring gulls and black-backs I had become used to seeing in Shetland . |
| 11 | Their conclusion was that despite the large number of variables considered by the studies , the traditional variables of word difficulty and sentence difficulty were by far the most important . |
| 12 | The higher the father 's status , the greater the child 's chance of attending a grammar rather than a secondary modern school , though the occupational group ‘ skilled manual workers ’ was so large that their children were by far the largest single group in all types of school . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Democrats were by far the most supportive . |
| 14 | Overseas guests , speakers and chaplain are an absolute must , as they were by far the most successful part of the conference . |
| 15 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 16 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 17 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |