Example sentences of "as [adv] east as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin , also listed in CITES Appendix 1 , is found throughout the Indian Ocean , and as far north as Canton in China and as far east as Sydney , Australia . |
| 2 | The large geographical database held in the system covers Europe as far east as the Urals . |
| 3 | The Commission resorted to desperate , grand-scale measures : along the valley of the river Netze as far east as Bromberg it settled a solid block of 22,000 Germans in an effort to prevent Polish land purchases in the area . |
| 4 | I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’ |
| 5 | Some crossed the island chain through Sumatra , Java and as far east as Bali . |
| 6 | The barbet species spread as far east as Bali but not into Lombok separated by only 15 miles ( 24 km ) of water . |
| 7 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 8 | The Greeks used to know this part of the world well , and a scattering of them still live in Romania , Bulgaria and as far east as Ukraine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As they adapted themselves to reindeer-herding and continued to expand towards the north-east , the Yakuts absorbed the original Yukagir inhabitants of the tundra as far east as the Kolyma river . |
| 11 | Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 13 | Extra-mural ribbon development , accompanied by several short side-streets and lanes , is also visible , probably extending as far east as the winged-corridor complex noted earlier . |
| 14 | In fifth-century sources their territory is described as stretching as far east as the Elbe . |
| 15 | Lake sediment records in Ecuador suggest that there was regional flooding of western Amazonia 1300–800 BP , i.e. major hydrological disturbance , which raised the water level as far east as Manaus , while savanna regions seem to have persisted on the northern edge of the basin throughout the late Quaternary . |