Example sentences of "very far " in BNC.
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| 31 | ALTHOUGH the onlookers might find the sight entertaining , you wo n't get very far trying to tow a full-size power boat with a Reliant Robin . |
| 32 | Ten dollars would n't get her very far , but there might be more where these came from . |
| 33 | However , we do know that whilst Margaret was lodging in Aldersgate , Richard was staying not very far away , with a friend , in Little Britain . |
| 34 | The modern name of France comes from the word frank , though the characteristics of the early Franks were very far removed indeed from those of the modern French peoples . |
| 35 | It did n't get very far . |
| 36 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 37 | But exclusion of the mystical did not advance knowledge very far . |
| 38 | I strain my ears to hear it , like distant music ; my eyes see it as a very bright light very far away . |
| 39 | For them freedom and self-reliance seem very far away . |
| 40 | Ben Lawers looks very far away from here , possibly because it is in fact very far away from here , but the walking on this lofty green ridge is so agreeable that the distance still to cover becomes an irrelevance . |
| 41 | Ben Lawers looks very far away from here , possibly because it is in fact very far away from here , but the walking on this lofty green ridge is so agreeable that the distance still to cover becomes an irrelevance . |
| 42 | Sandy was going to the US and I asked if I could carry for him the next year , but everybody was asking so I did n't get very far . |
| 43 | We were in trouble from the start because Nick put his tee-shot into a bunker from the first and he could n't get his second shot very far . |
| 44 | The search did n't extend very far because Elsie never went more than two or three miles from home . |
| 45 | But I knew Elsie would start at the top and not go very far down . |
| 46 | To escape , the heat has to travel up through quite large thicknesses of continental crust , and a large proportion does not get very far ; instead , it comes to rest and solidifies a few kilometres below the surface , forming enormous masses of igneous rock which have been forced or intruded into the crust and are known as batholiths ( Greek origin , meaning something like deep stones ) . |
| 47 | He is described as playing tricks on Jewish moneylenders in order to finance his soldiery , and generally behaving in a manner very far from what one might expect from the deeds of similar heroes such as Roland , Ogier or Lancelot . |
| 48 | Besides training and obtaining supplies , there was Arabic to learn , though I never got very far , French and Hausa to improve , and dozens of books to read on desert survival and the background to the Sahara . |
| 49 | ‘ Oh , that wo n't go very far , not when Reg and Henry get their fingers into them . |
| 50 | Man was n't very far removed from the animal in that sense . |
| 51 | ‘ That wo n't get you very far . ’ |
| 52 | Whatever implement it was that hit him went a long way round his skull but did n't penetrate very far , for which he should thank his stars . ’ |
| 53 | We also speak of being ‘ consumed ’ with guilt and , although we are not literally eaten away , the phrase is not so very far from the truth when you consider the harmful effect guilt can have on the physical body . |
| 54 | Nagy and his coworkers have shown that the bitumen did not travel very far from the heat source before solidifying , so it did not move the uraninite away from the reactor site . |
| 55 | The effect of this when it is accepted is very far reaching because the more an idea is tested the more it is validated and criticism becomes not a threat but an opportunity to strengthen the idea ; and what is more important scientists cease to have the same proprietorial attitude towards in idea . |
| 56 | Research studies which may seem quite practical to university people may seem very far removed from reality to practitioners , and research workers who are prepared to learn from the practitioners can often modify their research plans and greatly improve them . |
| 57 | The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained . |
| 58 | Any visitor to Ireland does n't have to travel very far before realising that this is a land where religion plays a major role in the life of every city , town and village . |
| 59 | Even those who support the view of a gradual assimilation of legacy and trust in the classical period in order to account for examples of loose language have some difficulty here : for nobody really wants to suppose that this process had got very far in Celsus ' day . |
| 60 | Deed not go very far |