Example sentences of "[noun] in the [noun sg] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimates for these first three pictures ( Canaletto and Rembrandt , upwards of £5 million , Holbein upwards of £15 million ) leave all the other pictures in the sale far behind . |
| 2 | They were driving through the suburbs in the valley far below the ancient hill settlement forming the historic core of the city . |
| 3 | Huddled behind a clump of trees , several villagers pointed to an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a truck in the valley far below which they said Serbian forces had used to pummel their homes . |
| 4 | The significance of these bills for domestic policy in the future far outweighed those passed by any president since Franklin Roosevelt . |
| 5 | It encouraged other energetic young scientists to engage in similar expeditions , and it showed armchair naturalists that the opportunities available to the man in the field far outweighed the advantages of staying at home . |
| 6 | Rent is high , accommodation scarce , and the chances of getting a knife in the stomach far from slim . |
| 7 | Of the classes visited , it can certainly be said that those in which the teaching and the interest of the students revealed vitality , enthusiasm and the promise of sustained interest in the subject far outnumbered those in which a short and superficial survey … seemed all that the tutor was prepared to offer or the class prepared to accept . |