Example sentences of "far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so far Kwik-Fit 's chairman , Tom Farmer , has , it appears , shown little inclination to meet the German wishes . |
| 2 | So far Trent had managed to keep it under control but he could taste its sourness in the back of his throat and feel it in his stomach and up the back of his thighs — familiar tremblings imperceptible to an observer . |
| 3 | So far £40 has been offered for the ball and £5 for the framed picture . |
| 4 | So far uranium dust has been detected in only one machine — the Oxford unit at Churchill Hospital . |
| 5 | The idea was to see just how far £250 would go … |
| 6 | In the table , ‘ northern ’ ( N ) means that the constellation is mainly in the northern hemisphere of the sky ; ‘ far northern ’ ( Far N ) that it is always invisible , or inconveniently low , from latitudes such as that of South Africa or southern Australia ; ‘ southern ’ ( S ) that the constellation is mainly south of the equator and ‘ far southern ’ ( Far S ) that it is inconveniently low , or invisible , from Britain or the northern United States . |
| 7 | But so far Lisa Marie , 24 , daughter of Dallas star Priscilla Presley , has yet to find a studio who will pay the money she wants . |
| 8 | So far ICI has not revealed what its defence against takeover would be . |
| 9 | So far building society inroads into consumer credit have been small . |
| 10 | Along the so-called M4 corridor , as far west as Newport in Gwent , new , technically sophisticated smaller industries were mushrooming . |
| 11 | It was a summer evening in a wood not very far West of the River Dyle . |
| 12 | ‘ They ’ did not come as far west as Fulham that night , but we did get it before the end of the week . |
| 13 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 14 | The mountain , in the Pakistan Karakoram , is sometimes known as Masherbrum Far West , and appears to have been climbed only once before by an Italian team . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The high quality of the Gulf pearls and the fact that the fisheries were controlled by Arabs ensured that from the market at Bandar e Lengeh on the Iranian coast not far west of the Gulf of Hormuz they entered into the trade network of the Indian Ocean and adjacent areas . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Here , by the Hilder , was far west of the site of the plants mentioned in Wrenwood . |
| 19 | ‘ Well he rang back with three ; one was too far west ; the other had bungalows ; the third was the right one . |
| 20 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , Rupert , back to your solitary meal in your neo-Edwardian house rather too far west of St John 's Wood , ’ said a voice near Penelope . |
| 22 | I suppose it 's all East if you go that far West . |
| 23 | In the eighth century , as the Franks had imposed their domination over those they called " subject peoples " , Frankish kings had come to rule over many regna , not only far west as well as east of the Rhine , but beyond the Alps and beyond the Pyrenees . |
| 24 | Mola had estimated that it should take about three weeks to conquer the coastal area as far west as Santander . |
| 25 | It emphasised that he was not only far west of London but far south as well on a latitude with Sicily and southern Spain . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of them are 1,000 miles away in Florida and as far west as Wichita , Kansas . ’ |
| 27 | Both Dalgliesh and Massingham wondered how far Mrs. Bidwell 's description of the quarrel given with the maximum dramatic effect , had been accurate . |
| 28 | So far E-mail tends to be used within single businesses , but raising it to inter-Group level would offer the benefits of speedier , cheaper and more convenient desk-to-desk communications for all . |
| 29 | How many procedures have we actually audited so far Richard ? |
| 30 | So far research has focused almost exclusively upon export crops such as sugar , bananas , cotton and beef and products consumed in urban areas to the neglect of inter-cropped maize , beans , potatoes and barley . |