Example sentences of "place far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandison 's idling thoughts were suddenly overtaken by his realisation that he was in a place far , far from home , a place so different and not exactly hostile but alien , perhaps unknowable . |
| 2 | Love will have raised him to a place far above human strife . |
| 3 | It is as though I have left the dull class rooms of the world and the discordant sound of the trampling feet and I have reached a place far from men where my mind is moved by universal rhythms . |
| 4 | The growth of student numbers took place far faster than in the UK — and the consequences for the nature of university education have been correspondingly more dramatic . |
| 5 | ‘ But this time I want to land , not at Inverkeithing but , ’ he stared across the water , ‘ at some secret place far from public view where I could stable a horse without arousing suspicion or interest . ’ |
| 6 | The meeting should be at a place far down the beach . |
| 7 | In general , the Buid place far more stress on the process of growth than on the acts of planting seed or of conceiving children . |
| 8 | For most Americans the Balkans are a place far away , stocked with people who , for reasons that pass comprehension , delight in murder and mayhem . |
| 9 | A place far off with responsibilities to hold him down . |
| 10 | Cassie knew that , for all his desire , he was , at that moment , in a place far , far away from her , his thoughts up there in the sky with his comrades , leaving her earthbound and excluded . |
| 11 | This is a pretty place far beyond what I anticipated . |