Example sentences of "came from [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside the hut the leaves and the grasses sparkled with the brightness of the shower , the air was fresh and sweet with released scents and the song of birds , and then , distantly but distinctly , almost as they emerged , came from very far away , somewhere to west and south of them , the sound of a horn . |
| 2 | Military ordered came from as far afield as India , Malaysia , Africa and , of course , Canada . |
| 3 | The animal skulls resting on the mantelpiece came from as far afield as Arizona and India , and some were brought back to be drawing subjects in more works of art |
| 4 | More striking still , fragments of the shell of Cassis rufa from the Grotte des Enfants near Mentone came from as far away as the Indian Ocean . |
| 5 | People and dogs came from as far away as Oxford to take part in this event which must have left them all fitter and leaner at the end of the day . |