Example sentences of "far off " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the outcome of the battle between public and private is far off , there is no doubt that during the phase of conflict the viewer is the winner . |
| 2 | But with Christmas not that far off , some forward champagne planning is definitely in order . |
| 3 | He stopped the jeep at the edge of the cornfield , and we observed that the mortar and shell fire were following the canisters as they were landing , leaving a few canisters lying on the ground not far off from where we were . |
| 4 | This is our forward area and the Germans are not far off . ’ |
| 5 | After all , the Germans were still not far off . |
| 6 | In many far off lands the Commission 's gardeners have no knowledge of the English language , while their supervisors are not fluent in the native tongue ; the result has been , so the Commission reports , that a form of hybrid speech has developed in certain countries that would be incomprehensible to other natives of the country and to ordinary English-speakers , but which is ‘ very eloquent ’ on matters relating to cemetery maintenance ! |
| 7 | They read and reread , often looking quite abstracted , memorizing passages silently , their eyes far off ; and when ideas eluded or baffled them they would turn to one another for help , each sister seeming to draw strength and comfort from the other 's closeness . |
| 8 | Far off , |
| 9 | Such problems are far off for Rugby 's Spiritualized , though their first LP is the toast of the rock press at the moment : a spacey , dreamy , bubbling mantra of introspection and buried tunes that is quite captivating . |
| 10 | A distant clock in Maryhill to his left began to chime and was answered by another , far off in Springburn away beyond the football ground and the timber basin . |
| 11 | Mexico is not far off , with 87.9 per cent ( 1983 ) . |
| 12 | Charles Beadle , Beatrice 's neighbour , tells many stories of Modigliani , full of drink and drugs , quarrelling , when he was in the garden with Beatrice innocently discussing the plants ; of Modigliani walking in the cemetery because ‘ death was not far off ’ ( ‘ Would n't it be magnificent ’ , he said to Beadle , if we could contemplate our own skeletons ? ’ ) ; of Modigliani reciting Lautréamont beside the graves , hungry for drugs , suspecting all Beatrice 's male friends . |
| 13 | Were this my last hour ( and that of an octogenarian can not be far off ) I would thank God for permitting me to behold so much of the excellence conferred on individuals . |
| 14 | A truck , far off , grinds gears and whines , coming slowly closer . |
| 15 | The salted scent of the sea told her of fishing far off on La Blanquilla . |
| 16 | Far off , upon the silver mere , would rise a puff of smoke from a punt , invisible from its flatness and its white paint . |
| 17 | And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were . |
| 18 | ‘ We ca n't be far off . |
| 19 | now we are closer , now far off . |
| 20 | It is like the sea breaking on a far off reef , and it lulls the being into extreme calm . |
| 21 | There soars the moon from the rim of the far off sea . |
| 22 | Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces . |
| 23 | But in those far off days , we were not expected to speak in class except to answer a teacher 's question . |
| 24 | As late as 1976 , most serious chess players thought that the day when computers would play master-level chess was still far off . |
| 25 | A lacunar iron complex with haemoglobin 's temperature and solution stability seems not far off . |
| 26 | They appeared often at different spots , places far apart , sometimes — usually — far off , many miles into the forest , sometimes quite near , not more than a few miles in . |
| 27 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 28 | ‘ Then he 's not far off , ’ said the thin man , keeping a sharp look-out on the surrounding trees and resting his hand on the pommel of his short sword . |
| 29 | At that moment there was the sound of a horn far off in the forest . |
| 30 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |