Example sentences of "their [noun] [was/were] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lists of freemen of the city must be used with great caution , for their coverage was far from complete , but they indicate patterns of immigration amongst the ‘ middling ’ groups of townsmen — the tradesmen , craftsmen and shopkeepers who together accounted for at least half the adult male population . |
| 2 | Their lives were far more than just hard . |
| 3 | Their influence was far more diffuse and elusive ; as one teacher put it , ‘ we keep them in the backs of our minds ’ . |
| 4 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 5 | But elsewhere their predictions were far too rosy . |
| 6 | Their love-making was far more civilised , in one way . |