Example sentences of "as far [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 2 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
| 3 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 4 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 5 | ( In particular it was emphasised that the protection of green belts ‘ must be maintained as far ahead as can be seen . ’ |
| 6 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 8 | Waters were also rising in the Norfolk Broads and there were reports of some minor flooding as far inland as Norwich , which is 20 miles from the coast . |
| 9 | He 's had dogs from as far afield as London and Liverpool . |
| 10 | Seventy years later the cloth merchants of Kano , who ‘ put out ’ yarn for weaving and organized the dyeing and marketing of the cloth , were exporting as far afield as Alexandria across the desert and Brazil across the sea . |
| 11 | As a Class 2 Navigator , Corporal Fisher was mate of the RCL , and was often called upon to command and navigate the vessel through coastal waters as far afield as Norway and Portugal . |
| 12 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 13 | They have brought France into conflict with South Pacific countries from as far afield as Chile and Peru . |
| 14 | A UNIQUE patch of north London houses the very wealthy , from the Sultan of Brunei to millionaires from as far afield as Greece , Hong Kong and Nigeria . |
| 15 | In 1934 , P & O , Cunard , Blue Star , Orient and Royal Mail took passengers as far afield as Japan , Australia , and Hawaii . |
| 16 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 17 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 18 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 19 | Competitors travelled from as far afield as Middlesex , Berks and Kent for the end of season unaffiliated dressage championships held at Parwood Equestrian Centre , Normandy last week . |
| 20 | On the night of the full moon , people gathered there from as far afield as Bārakot , twelve days ' walk away . |
| 21 | The majority are from the surrounding small towns and villages , but some exhibitors come from as far afield as Lincolnshire . |
| 22 | All Hallows cross-country teams entered the national cross country championships at Marple Hall School last month , when more than 40 schools were represented from as far afield as Newcastle and Coventry . |
| 23 | Mail for villages as far afield as Langtoft and Boynton came by post train from Hull , was dropped at Lowthorpe station at 7 am and then brought by horse and cart to the post office at Lowthorpe . |
| 24 | It 's also good to see a British company doing well abroad , with exports as far afield as Europe , USA , Australia , Japan , Taiwan and even New Zealand . |
| 25 | It took nearly a year of searching as far afield as Slough to find suitable premises for the nursery . |
| 26 | Manuscripts of his treatise The Ladder of Perfection were passed from monastery to monastery and were soon found as far afield as southern France . |
| 27 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 28 | Prior to AD 625 the coins are found mainly in Kent and the upper Thames valley ; afterwards they are found spread over a wider area as far afield as Ireland , Scotland , Derbyshire and Yorkshire , although they remain concentrated in south-east England . |
| 29 | The epicentre was near Bishops Castle in Shropshire , but the shaking was felt as far afield as the intensity 2 area . |
| 30 | Military ordered came from as far afield as India , Malaysia , Africa and , of course , Canada . |