Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv] far " in BNC.

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1 If anybody is successful in bringing in new work into the office , clearly that reflects in their achievements and their objectives , merely that reflects in their assessment so far as er their managers and are concerned and clearly that will will be reflected in their pay , so that will be the way that er we would normally tackle and that would be the way I I was prepared to tackle it .
2 He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days .
3 They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned .
4 Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot .
5 But the USSR is without outside élites and pressure groups , let alone an electorate , to rescue the careers of those who push their luck too far .
6 By the summer of 1943 the Americans were getting into their stride so far as the war in the Pacific was concerned .
7 If the working class push their action too far , the apparent neutrality of the state will disappear and the state will act against them .
8 There are times when the Americans have a tendency to cut corners and push their aircraft too far .
9 The principal mistake made by students in their studies is to place the aim or object of their work too far into the future .
10 Eighteen months later , the DTI inspectors have little to show for their work so far , apart from a bill to the taxpayer which Esquire estimates in excess of £1 million .
11 You can also achieve this by placing some of your weight through the boom to the mast foot — this is why many top sailors appear to lean forwards with their feet so far back .
12 Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds .
13 Being mostly mechanical in operation , these recorders had their limitations as far as accuracy was concerned .
14 They cast their lines not far off-shore , and appeared to take excellent catches of fish .
15 Under Augustus or Tiberius Strabo still stated , as an evident fact , that in the study of little-known countries " the Roman writers are imitators of the Greeks and they do not carry their imitation very far , for what they relate they merely translate from the Greeks " ( 3.4.19 ) .
16 The look that recognised , no matter what their hard fighting and their successes so far , that all the future hinged on the army they were now waiting for .
17 This lot wrote the music score to the ‘ art ’ porn film starring Antonio De Sancha and as that 's been the highlight of their career so far , it can only get better .
18 In Ceausescu 's Romania there was no chance of pressing their claim too far .
19 One friend said : ‘ Denise believes that her husband was pushing their daughter too far , too fast , too soon .
20 Although Smith may still be a distance away from the dreaded vote of confidence , City have lost all three of their matches so far in the international section of the competition .
21 You can be sure that , slump or no slump , the Champenois are n't going to drop their prices very far before they start cutting corners .
22 He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could .
23 An approach described by Gup and Norwood ( 1982 ) may offer the basis of the method needed , even though they were not attempting to push their analysis as far as that implied here .
24 But the big boys earning the best return on their assets so far are GEC , BTR , Unilever , Marks and Spencer , and Sainsbury .
25 The band 's debut release , the ‘ Stoned Woman ’ album , out this month , serves as a summary of their achievements so far and a blueprint for future possibilities — in much the same way the Brand New Heavies ' debut did a couple of years back .
26 Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ?
27 Observers , using all the instruments , presented highlights of their results so far to the AAAS meeting .
28 Look at their results so far
29 The aliens and absentees who pushed their claims too far fanned the flames of popular revolt in Sussex in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and bore the brunt of the explosions that followed .
30 Their contribution so far has emphasized reviews of human impacts often reflecting research in other disciplines rather than appropriate fundamental impact studies by physical geographers .
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