Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] as far as " in BNC.

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1 Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands .
2 ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’
3 Later , Patrick discovered that Tracey 's tree would not balance as one rod was not pushed in as far as the others .
4 Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle .
5 On the saturday there are seven-a-side football competitions for youngsters involving 30 or more teams who travel from as far as Newcastle in the North and Wetherby in the South to take part .
6 True Londoners were sobered up by what was happening to their town , but young fellows , sometimes coming from as far as California , felt very lost and lonely , and sometimes escaped via the bottle .
7 He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application .
8 Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get .
9 Admittedly , he says , some behaviour is regarded as externally caused in as far as the real explanation is not the intentional one .
10 What natural selection does seem to care about as far as sex is concerned is that there is constant re-combination and this is a question of sexual that we 'll touch on later .
11 This is the main hinterland which the port serves , although some orders come from as far as London , South Wales or Scotland .
12 Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it .
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