Example sentences of "from [noun pl] [adv] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's despite new evidence that people in their seventies or eighties can recover from operations just as well as the young . |
| 2 | ‘ It could be defined more as a jazz-funk fusion , drawing from influences as far apart as Miles Davis and Parliament . |
| 3 | Muslims are just as divided as Christians : by ethnic origin ( they hail from areas as far apart as Turkey and Nigeria ) ; by language ( as well as Arabic , their native tongues include Urdu , Bengali , Hausa , Swahili and Farsi ) ; by doctrine ( three-quarters are Shias and the rest are Sunnis ) ; by money ( Kuwaiti bankers do not usually invite Bradford textile-workers to their Knightsbridge dinner parties ) ; and by politics . |
| 4 | Louis Bizat , the Palace 's present general manager , says : " When it burned down I received , within eight days , over 200 telegrams , of which 190 were from abroad , from places as far apart as Canada , Hong Kong , the States , Australia , all expressing their sorrow that this had happened . |
| 5 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 6 | The RIC offered a model of colonial policing and in fact many officers from forces as far afield as Kenya , Jamaica and Canada were trained at its headquarters in Dublin . |
| 7 | PENSIONERS in Grampian will be able to travel on all bus services in the region and on journeys to and from destinations as far away as Inverness and Dundee for only 10p , it was announced yesterday . |