Example sentences of "far [noun] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of them are 1,000 miles away in Florida and as far west as Wichita , Kansas . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They ’ did not come as far west as Fulham that night , but we did get it before the end of the week . |
| 3 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 4 | Along the so-called M4 corridor , as far west as Newport in Gwent , new , technically sophisticated smaller industries were mushrooming . |
| 5 | White nephrite rings were already being distributed , presumably from this source , as far west as Seima near Gorki at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga at a period broadly contemporary with the Shang dynasty . |
| 6 | Mola had estimated that it should take about three weeks to conquer the coastal area as far west as Santander . |
| 7 | Pawson has shown that the Newcastle Journal in 1739 was distributed to agents as far south-west as Preston , south-east as Ripon , north as Eyemouth and west as Whitehaven.24 At the other end of the country , by the 1770s the Sherborne Mercury was read from Salisbury to Penzance . |
| 8 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 9 | But before you get on the phone to the North Shields headquarters , be warned : the Standard will only lend to those living in the North East and as far south as Hartlepool . |
| 10 | Average January temperatures are below freezing point , even as far south as Bitola , which lies in the same latitude as Naples . |
| 11 | One winter in the last century twelve great white bears got as far south as Iceland by this method ; imagine them riding town on their melting thrones to make a terrifying , godlike landfall . |
| 12 | Members have always owned vast estates and , through important heiress alliances , acquired ( and sometimes disposed of ) property in many counties as far south as Dorset and Kent . |
| 13 | Slavs accompanied the Avar hordes who invaded the Byzantine empire in the late sixth century , laying waste cities as far south as Tiveropolis ( Strumica in south-east Macedonia ) and enslaving or slaughtering the indigenous population . |
| 14 | This area extended down the eastern shore of the Adriatic , past the port of Trieste , as far south as Zara ( the present Zadar ) . |
| 15 | There were archers from all parts of the country , from the north and as far south as Hampshire . |
| 16 | O. cuspidata has been recorded in the eastern Atlantic from iceland as far south as Ascension Island with a bathymetric range of 768–2460 m . |
| 17 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 18 | May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation . |
| 19 | ‘ We currently transport in the region of 225,000 litres of milk to Manchester every week for distribution as far south as Birmingham and Coventry and to Hull and Grimsby in the east . |
| 20 | The runs became longer in successive weeks , with the destinations moving from Selby to Doncaster to Nottingham and ultimately as far south as Southampton . |
| 21 | With help from officers from the Federation Against Copyright Theft ( Fact ) , which made the prosecution , they uncovered a wide network of shops throughout the North-East , and as far south as Cambridgeshire , which had received videos from Classic Video . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State remember that in Northern Ireland Question Time on 12 December he and I shared a concern about the build-up of munitions and arms as far south as Limerick for trans-shipment to Northern Ireland , as unfortunately happened ? |
| 24 | Trains of animals , each carrying 5 or 6 hundredweight , crossed the wilder stretches of the country or plodded along the narrow paved causeways that were to be found on both sides of the Pennines and as far south as Derbyshire . |
| 25 | The Lombards had soon occupied an area that extended as far south as Perugia , though not all the way east to the Adriatic coast . |
| 26 | Over-confident , the Italians occupied parts of Tigre and pushed as far south as Amba Alagi . |
| 27 | Entrants are now more varied and include local farmers and horsey young girls , some of whom travel from as far south as Nottinghamshire . |
| 28 | In Portugal the French influence was strongest , led by Burgundy , and craftsmen and artisans had reached as far south as Lisbon by the mid-twelfth century . |
| 29 | The corridor of land administered by the League extended as far south as Cracow , Göttingen and Cologne . |
| 30 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |