Example sentences of "far down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't believe that Scotland has fallen far down the pecking order of top rugby nations . |
| 3 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 4 | The meeting should be at a place far down the beach . |
| 5 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 6 | On attaining the summit , it 's a bit of a shock to see how far down the ridge drops round the lip of the corrie before climbing back up to Aonach Beag , but it snakes invitingly away to the east , presenting an irresistible walkway into untamed terrain . |
| 7 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 8 | The fractional volume of activity depends on how far down the cascade one is ; i.e. on , where κ O is a typical wave number of the turbulence energy production . |
| 9 | It is also possible at this early stage for workers to transfer to other firms without falling too far down the promotion ladder although such mobility is rarely between large firms . |
| 10 | There is no ultimate theory , but there is an infinite sequence of theories that are such that any particular class of observations can be predicted by taking a theory sufficiently far down the chain . |
| 11 | ‘ It was quite wet and Imran went quite far down the wicket — he may be a great player but he 's not a great runner — before sending Inzamam back . |
| 12 | The world is returning to normal , and I wonder how far down the news Deptford will have slipped . |
| 13 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 14 | Not only do most people find this tricky but you run the risk of forgetting how far down the list you have travelled . |
| 15 | Mr Bowstead says that location is quite far down the list of priorities for companies choosing a printer and that P&W is well to the fore in providing services such as pass-the-press which allows clients to check the product during the printing process . |